I'm used to dialup, However I'm visiting, and my laptop is plugged into a box which has two other machines also plugged in. They are both running windows, and work perfectly.

My downloads are slower than dialup.

This is what I see when I run /sbin/netconfig eth0:
# /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:5B9:FC:81
inet addr:192.168.1.102 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3442 errors:1463 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1498
TX packets:2691 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2666943 (2.5 MiB) TX bytes:261987 (255.8 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec80

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:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 b) TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:209.217.84.222 P-t-P:209.217.84.1 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:19453 (18.9 KiB) TX bytes:37 (37.0 b)

What have I done wrong?

Are you letting eth0 to get its own IP or did you assign it?
If assigned then have you set the DNS IP to the local connection you are at?

Brian

I started this by doing pppoe-setup, and typed in the two numbers, don't remember a DNS number. Where would I put it?

It turned out that in /etc/resolv.conf the two nameserver numbers and the line search (ISPname.ca) were required.

and do pppoe-start

then downloads came in at ~60kb/s which is enough for now.

Are you connecting to a cable/dsl router?
If so then setup as a standard network interface and not pppoe.
You can then use the routers lan IP as a DNS value since the router should have it programmed in or gets its own IP.

Brian

Yes, it's a dsl router.
Network interface setup looks promising, so will try that when I next visit. Will be a month from now.

Reading http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_10_02.html doesn't at first glance show a way of finding the router's lan IP, is there an easy way of doing this?

Still pretty much the same story; just did a re-install, and did "network" during install so that eth0 was up after startx.
This time pppoe makes no difference.

Anyone have simple instructions on how to add a slackware machine to a windows LAN?

Found it.

1- The system is using pppoe, not DHCP.
2- The cable is bad.

BTW http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/DSL-HOWTO.html

is useful.