Slackware 10, DSL internet not working, I have searched....

Virum · 07-26-2004, 05:55 PM

Umm, I know this must be a common question, but I can't figure out how to solve the problem, even though I have googled and what not.

The connection: SBC Global, modem his hooked to router, comp is hooked to router.

First off, I ran netconfig from the console. I don't know what to put in for hostname and host domain.

I had put in junk (slackware, a domain name, [respectively] ) and selected DHCP for IP Assigning (or whatever is next in the setup program there).

No DHCP hostname is needed either. Iternet (or any networking it appears) doesn't seem to work on Linux (but it does in Windows) What should I do next?

darcon3k · 07-26-2004, 10:45 PM

I believe that SBC uses PPPoE on their DSL so try looking at this thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ighlight=pppoe

edit: Sorry, router should be handling the PPPoE. Try this thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hlight=network

Virum · 07-26-2004, 11:26 PM

Ok, I looked at that thread and I did what shilo said. No problem, that was easy. However the internet didn't work (not that I thought it would) so I kept reading. However, I don't understand Rotvogel's post. Could you dumb it way down for me?

ppuru · 07-26-2004, 11:41 PM

what Rotvogel suggested was to try a different driver for the ethernet card.

Please post the output of

#lspci -vv|grep Eth
#dmesg|grep eth

This will help understand whether your ethernet card has been detected.

Virum · 07-27-2004, 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ppuru
what Rotvogel suggested was to try a different driver for the ethernet card.

Please post the output of

#lspci -vv|grep Eth
#dmesg|grep eth

This will help understand whether your ethernet card has been detected.

Outputs:

Code:

#lspci -vv|grep Eth
00.12.0 Ethernet Controller: VIA Technologies , Inc.  VT6102 [
          Subsystem VIA Technologies , Inc.  VT6102  [Rhine  II] 

#dmesg|grep eth
eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xe400, 00:50:2c:00:f3:d3, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PMY found at address 1, status 0x782d advertising 01e1 Link 40a1.

ppuru · 07-27-2004, 10:19 PM

The outputs look good, your NIC has been detected.

can you also please post the output of

#/sbin/ifconfig -a

Have your ISP given you any special software to be installed on windows? I want to confirm whether you need to use the rp-pppoe package. The rp-pppoe package is selected by default by Slackware.

Some ISPs (like mine) require that I send them a email requesting linux connectivity (almost spent a week there with their techsupport; got escalated and the simple solution was ... send an email :P)

Virum · 07-28-2004, 12:19 PM

Umm, there is a ton of stuff outputted......I won't type it all, let me know if you need more.

It gives the:

Code:

etho     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:2C:00:f3:D3
            inet addr: 192.168.1.101  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask 255.255.255.0
            UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500   Metric:1
           <stuff about packets and bytes omitted>

lo         Link encap:Local Loopback
            innet addr:127.0.0.1   Mask 225.0.0.0
            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:!
            <stuff about packets and bytes omitted>

Thanks for all your help so far.

BTW, I already know the DSL connection works with Linux since it worked with Redhat 9 right after install. Hope that helps. No windows software was installed.

Cedrik · 07-28-2004, 12:56 PM

How did you test that internet is not working ?

is there a diferrence when you :
ping google.com
ping 216.239.39.99

Virum · 07-28-2004, 01:32 PM

Ok, right now I feel embarassed. I had to restart today, and it worked. Apparently the one config file I had edited earlier (the one shilo had said to in the other thread, fixed the problem (but only after I rebooted). I'm sorry to have wasted your time.

Cedrik · 07-28-2004, 01:44 PM

Don't worry

ppuru · 07-28-2004, 10:08 PM

you mean you edited /etc/resolv.conf and put in the required entries

search
nameserver

that should have taken effect almost immediately.

Virum · 07-29-2004, 01:09 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ppuru
you mean you edited /etc/resolv.conf and put in the required entries

search
nameserver

that should have taken effect almost immediately.

That's what I thought too, but it didn't until reboot or something. It works now though.

Thanks guys.