1st off I agreed to start learning Linux better through command line which is what I am doing now. I had used Fedora for a while (mainly as GUI desktop) and now I giving command line a shot with a completely stripped down no-GUI form of Slackware. Only planning to use it as a home server (Samba, MySQL, PHP, etc.). I have installed what I needed a few days back and now I am running into a few problems.

Currently I have set my IP address and stuff through command line but I am running into a problem...I can ping everything on the network but I can't actually access the internet. I have looked through a couple various conf files...one was rc.inet1.conf and entered in the necassary values there but still nothing. Granted I won't be using this machine much web browsing but I'd still like to be able to download updates.

And that leads me to another question...what is the command for updates on Slackware?

So any ideas?

try
# netconfig
to configure internet access
If this doesn't do the job, take a look at /etc/resolv.conf and edit if necessary.
# ifconfig
will show you active network connections

swaret is the tool I use for updates, but there are others
http://swaret.sourceforge.net/index.php

good luck!

Hard to say not knowing the set-up?
Are you using DHCP?

If not:
In rc.inet1.conf ... did you set the gateway to
your router? And which servers did you put
into /etc/resolv.conf ?

In other words:
if a
ping www.google.com
doesn't work, does a
ping 64.233.161.99
work for you?

My traditional way of upgrading Slack would be
to get the security fixes from ftp.slackware.com


Cheers,
Tink

route -n will show your routing table. if you're getting an ip address but not able to connect to the internet, you probably need to add a default gateway:

route add dw gateway 192.168.1.1

should do the trick, iirc... (and assuming you're using a router as a gateway) you can also set that in rc.inet1.conf i believe.

for installing/updating i mostly use slackpkg. it's available on the slackware cd's, just install it, uncomment one of the servers in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors, and you're ready to go.

Ok, every PC on our network has a static IP...no DHCP enabled. Normally in this case I've always had to manually enter in DNS servers. I have noticed on Windows that when I do this no DNS suffix shows up in ipconfig even though we can access the internet just fine. I'd figure this will work for Linux as well. I have manually entered in the DNS servers in netconfig (well 1 of them) as well as everything else correctly...but still no go. As you said Tinkster...I can't ping by domain name but I can ping IP's fine.


Here is what is in resolv.conf (I added the 2nd server in there)
And here is rc.inet1.conf
I'm not sure what to do now...any ideas?

You should check out this link
http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_l...esolv.conf.htm
I just have a search entry, which is the name of my router, and a nameserver entry, which is my default gateway in resolv.conf.

search Belkin
nameserver 192.168.2.1

works for me anyhoo

Hey hey it works....thanks dcdbutler. I'm sure I'll be back with more questions down the road.

Really the more I have used command line the more I have grown to like it...still haven't done a lot yet, but so far I'm slowly getting the hang of it.