@snakle I'm glad to hear you got it working, and an easy one at that.

@anakin: take a look up top at alien bob's posts again, I think you'll find that to be your answer.

I cannot get the DHCP configuration under Slackware 11 with kernel 2.6.17.13.
ethtool reports that eth0 has "link detected" set to yes while running only prints the MAC Address. Also, rc.inet1.conf has USE_DHCP[0] set to yes.

yea, I got it thanks a lot, but I haven't got that problem since now.

Would it be possible to set the IP address of the DHCP and DNS servers in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf? I have set the default gateway and the subnet mask but I don't know how to set the IP address of the DHCP server and two DNS servers. I have those IP addresses.

That is not how DHCP works. The DHCP client (dhcpcd) configures everything, so you should not need to supply values for anything anything but USE_DHCP[0]="yes". Leave the rest empty.

Eric

That's what I had initially and tried few minutes ago. dhcpcd prints only the MAC Address :scratch:

Might be a stupid question, but... do you have a DHCP server running on your network?
And have you tried if you get connected if you use a static IP address from the address range of your local network instead of DHCP?

Eric

Well, I don't know where the DHCP server is as I have a satellite modem. I'll try using the IP Address that Windows got and see how it goes. What other options do I need to set?

It seems that the service provider stores the MAC address and use it to grant the IP address. I managed to get the same IP address after using HWADDR[0] to overrule the card's hardware MAC address with the one I got from the other machine.

I still have one problem, when I access a page it takes a while before the page starts rendering. Could this be related to the DNS servers or the gateway?