how can i get the internet on slackware 11?

Infohungry · 05-05-2007, 03:16 PM

WOOT!! It worked, thank you to everyone that helped!

I will be putting a linux forum on my website soon, when I get it up, I will publish it on the forum.

Once again, thank you to everyone.

chike · 05-05-2007, 04:21 PM

it didn't work for me though i still can't use the ineternet

i tried doing tux-slack's instructions and i still have no luck

this is what ifconfig is telling me

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:D3:22:21:21
inet addr:192.168.2.35 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc000

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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

ryanoa · 05-05-2007, 04:30 PM

chike,

I can see from the output of your ifconfig, eth0 is getting an ip address. Can you ping your router?

chike · 05-05-2007, 04:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryanoa

chike,

I can see from the output of your ifconfig, eth0 is getting an ip address. Can you ping your router?

how do i do that?

ryanoa · 05-05-2007, 04:41 PM

open up a console and type:

Code:

ping -c3 ipaddress_of_router

chike · 05-05-2007, 04:55 PM

that didn't work either.

what am i doing wrong? i'm clearly doing something wrong i don't know what though but nothing seems to work

chike · 05-06-2007, 09:54 AM

is there anything i should do?

BCarey · 05-06-2007, 10:09 AM

What is the output from the ping command?

Brian

chike · 05-06-2007, 10:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

What is the output from the ping command?

Brian

root@what:~# ping -c3 192.168.2.35
PING 192.168.2.35 (192.168.2.35) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.2.35: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.018 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.35: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.013 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.35: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.012 ms

--- 192.168.2.35 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1998ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.012/0.014/0.018/0.004 ms

BCarey · 05-06-2007, 01:53 PM

Actually you are only pinging yourself, because ifconfig told us that your ip is 192.168.2.35. Your router is perhaps 192.168.2.1? Try that. Then try an external ping like "ping 64.233.187.99". Also, what are the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf?

Brian

chike · 05-07-2007, 11:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

Actually you are only pinging yourself, because ifconfig told us that your ip is 192.168.2.35. Your router is perhaps 192.168.2.1? Try that. Then try an external ping like "ping 64.233.187.99". Also, what are the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf?

Brian

Pinging the router in Konsole seems to work! Thanks dawg!

Alien_Hominid · 05-07-2007, 11:43 PM

So does it work? I believe the problem is in DNS resollution. Try this in terminal:
nslookup google.com

chike · 06-02-2007, 10:38 AM

argh

some stupid thunderstorm knocked out my power as i was using the computer and i had to restart, and it couldn't boot into linux because the filesystem had errors so i had to reinstall slackware

and i tried getting the internet back up using the steps here but i couldn't. the internet is down AGAIN. i tried pinging the router like i have been doing and that did not work.

nslookup did not work as it timed out

and i can't ping any other external address, they show up as unreachable

what should i do now?

edit: NEVERMIND i restarted and it works again.