HEY I DON'T SHOUT!!!! lol

Really, you're doing a great job. Just wanted to point out what you and I take for granted is not the same as a newbie.

Keep it up.

Now you just need to install the right module....Not as easy as it sounds. Just follow Nylex's advice.

Edit: ignore me, see cwwilson's post below.

Cool. Lol, it's just I seem to have forgotten netconfig probes for a NIC to configure and stuff, so perhaps all the modprobing and stuff wasn't necessary. I seem to take the long way around in doing things!

Did you reboot? (easier than restarting services...lol)

still nothing my ifconfig still looks the same

Is that after a reboot as well?

I just run netconfig on all my new installs....Does everything:modprobe, sets up the network ip addresses, and resolv.conf, hosts, all kinds of stuff....lol

As I said, we somtimes forget the 'easy' way. Slackware can do that to you....

yeppers completely rebooted and then tried

How about another 'lsmod'...

That squishy sound you hear is my head hitting the desk...

bash-3.00# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss 36736 0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss 12376 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
usb-ohci 19368 0 (unused)
usbcore 59148 1 [usb-ohci]
snd-ali5451 11364 0
snd-ac97-codec 58556 0 [snd-ali5451]
snd-pcm 54344 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-ali5451 snd-ac97-codec]
snd-timer 13764 0 [snd-pcm]
snd 32772 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-ali5451 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer]
snd-page-alloc 4712 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd]
soundcore 3396 3 [snd]
ds 6548 2
yenta_socket 10436 1
pcmcia_core 39172 0 [ds yenta_socket]
ide-scsi 9392 0
agpgart 45508 0 (unused)
bash-3.00#

*should i give try to set up a static ip and manually enter the dns servers

The natsemi module still isn't loaded, which is odd. Go ahead and run netconfig again and if you're not using DHCP then yeah, use the static IP option.

alright,
here is what i have done. I ran the netconfig again nothing happend, so i tried the static ip and that did not work, which would mean that loading the module is what i should try, so i typed in #modprobe natsemi and here is what i got


root@Tim:~# modprobe natsemi
/lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/natsemi.o.gz: /lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/natsemi.o.gz: unresolved symbol crc32_le
/lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/natsemi.o.gz: /lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/natsemi.o.gz: unresolved symbol bitreverse
/lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/natsemi.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/natsemi.o.gz failed
/lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/natsemi.o.gz: insmod natsemi failed
root@Tim:~#

The problem appears to be that the natsemi module depends on having the crc32 module loaded. To be honest, I'm not sure of the proper way of dealing with this (but someone will know), but as a kind of temporary solution, maybe try

# modprobe crc32
# modprobe natsemi

and see if that helps.

According to /lib/modules/2.4.31/modules.dep, it sure does need crc32

hehe, ty very much for your help, i was able to get a ip from my dhcp server i can take the rest from here i hope. Should be intresting either way
Thank you both for your time and effort

Yay . Does it still work after rebooting and stuff? Actually, since you've got it working for now you may not want to reboot! I'm going to go to sleep (it's 23:20 here), but shall return to this thread tomorrow morning to see if you've had more problems.