The last time i was on my slack10 drive everythign was working perfectly, i did a shutdown command and turned off my system and switched back over to XP to do some graphic designs.
Few days go by and i decide to get back into linux so i can do whatever i needed to do, well the first thing i notice is that i cant get on the internet.
i cant do a ping or anything - so i do a su and a netconfig and re-enter my settings and nothing seems to work. The control center settings checked out fine so im kind of at loss on what i hsould do...my kernel has support for my card, theres no reason why it shouldnt be working
any guidance would be appreciated

If you have a DSL modem and/or router, turn them off for 15sec. Turn on, wait for a min or so until lights on the DSL are on then as root;
# /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 stop
# /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 start
# ifconfig (should show an ip)
DSL modems sometime get confused booting on a dual boot box. Since you netconfig'ed, you 'may' have to redo this. Don't know, not sure what you did.

'course I'm just guessing, I don't know what's your setup since you didn't give any info.

yea but my internet works fine on my XP box

joker20, did you changed something in Linux before it stopped working? Upgraded packages, kernel?

i sure didnt man, i wish i had because it might be a little more easier to pinpoint as to why its not working
but i just did a shutdown now, logged off and powerd down :-/

I had hotplug intermittently loading the wrong driver for my card. I needed dmfe and it would load tulip until I blacklisted it. THe confusing thing was sometimes it would works sometimes it wouldn't. Just a suggestion

Is it showing anything in ifconfig at all?

linux is on 1 hdd, XP is on another - im to paranoid to try a dual boot because i dont trust it

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