Hi - first post.

Ok I'm new to nix (forgive me). I've just completed install for Slackware 12.0 on my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 but having trouble configuring the network.

Initially I just tried running netconfig and selecting DHCP (I connect through WAG54G2 ADSL2 gateway with DHCP enabled). After this I checked ifconfig -a and eth0 was still selected as having no IP address.

Then I tried (possibly foolishly?) to configure it with a static IP address, entered IP, gateway and name servers - still the same.

I then checked /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and manually put in my settings, and selected "yes" for DHCP.

Checked ifconfig and same results.

Only thing displaying an IP address is loopback, so I can ping localhost quite nicely..

I've done a bit of googling which didn't help overly much, as most have said it's straight forward and especially using DHCP and I believe the network card is supported.

I don't have to install any kernel modules, or anything else do I?

Device manager within Windows lists Network Adapter as Intel(R) 82566MM Gigabit network connection, and the compatability lists I've found advise that it should be supported.

Without booting back into nix I can't tell you exact kernel version but if this helps I can!

Any ideas/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi Altuz,

welcome to LQ.

I am not sure wether your card needs the 'e1000' or 'e1000e' driver according to Intel download center -- I typed 82566MM in the search field and am still in doubt.

To check which one is loaded, 'lsmod|grep e1000'

Anyway 'e1000' is included in kernels for Slackware 12.0, but 'e1000e' is not (only included in kernels for 12.1 and 12.2).

To find out which driver you need you can check this link

Also, if you issue 'lspci -k'' you will see information about kernel driver in use as well as kernel modules.

To make a long story short, if your network adapted is fairly recent, I would try Slackware 12.2 instead of 12.0 and see what happens

But still, if you determine you do not have the good driver you could follow Intel's instructions to install it if you wish.

If you think that you have the good driver and the module is loaded, the 'dhcpcd eth0' command should connect your computer. Check with 'route' where you should see two lines with eth0 under the 'Iface' header.

Hi Didier,

Thanks a lot for that I'll try those commands when I get home and see how I go.

Thanks again!