Connecting to the Internet in Slackware 9.1
 

okay, I'm connectng through a LAN, at home I'm using a Linksys router that you can plug into or use wirelessly. It receives internet from a DSL modem. I'm pretty sure I have a dynamic IP address from my ISP. At school I'm merely plugged into the dorm's LAN.

So pppsetup I learned is for dial-up, I really have no use for that but at least I learned that command.

I ran lspci, I figured the important part of the output would be

02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100 Base-T (rev 01)
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4301 802.11b (rev 02)

I think this means that Slack did recognize my LAN and wireless NIC, right?
So how do I tell Slack to let me connect???

After running lsmod I got a lot of output and have no idea what I'm looking for. Thanks for any help that you can give me.

don't know slack, but lspci list's pci connections/boards, well that's how I understand it anyway's.

have you tried ifconfig (probably as root), that should then list your loop and presuming that your ethernet connection is configured as eth0

Something like this

bash-2.05b# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:07:3E:9D
inet addr:***.***.**.** Bcast:***.***.**.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:12390 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13403 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:11494449 (10.9 Mb) TX bytes:2018845 (1.9 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:400 (400.0 b) TX bytes:400 (400.0 b)

bash-2.05b#

If you are connected via a DSL modem and router, then in theory, anyway's you should just have to config the LAN part of eth0 giving it the address of the router, because I should have thought that you would already have got the modem and router connected previously (via windows ??? or something).

regards

John

Try 'netconfig'. You probably want to use DHCP when it asks, and when it prompts for a DHCP hostname just hit enter. And you'll want to run this as root. Afterwards either reboot or run /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 as root.