Hi guys

I just need a little help with procedure...dont need to be spoonfed just want to know if im going in the right direction

Installed slackware...cant get online with a ethernet cable
I run netconfig and go through configuring ip dg etc
But i cant ping anything after completing the setup.

When im in xfce all network settings are greyed out
I cant add a connection or anything
This leads me to believe there is no module loaded
For the NIC...how can i see if the network card is loaded?
Do i have to use modprobe to add a nic module

I think i know whats wrong...its just how to solve it
Any advice appreciated

Ps"all help i can find on google seems to show how to configure
Network settings if the card is present...is it possible that this network card is just not supported and i cant run slack on this netbook? Or is there always a way?"

Hi,

Look at Slackware Doc Project;Configure your Network section should help.
Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!

Most likelly a kernel driver problem.

Yeah, I do not killed the fox for you, but yet you have something to research...

Output of following command (typed as root):could help figure our what are you hardware, associated kernel modules and driver in use (if any :-)

PS The command was wrong, it's fixed now

Your hardware could have a driver issue.

As Didier said run that command and copy-paste the results.

Also, a lot of systems tend to have better results from the network using NetworkManager rather than dhcpcd. Try running net config and see if NetworkManager helps.

Also, check the cables. I've gotten a few bad cables in my day, and you could have one.

If you have Wi-Fi, try it too.

Is it the ethernet port or wireless network that you are trying to get working?
Didier posted a command for ethernet, to see wireless it needs a minor change.

Having taken a really long hiatus from Slackware (16 years?), there's just no way to "ease" myself back in... Into the fire I go and have to try and try to figure things out, again (including wiping out partitions and re-installing a few times in one night, being last night).

nille, the OP mentioned an ethernet cable, so there's that answer.

In the initial install, I did get wired and eventually wireless running, hugely thanks to various online documents (installed Slack on a laptop with my desktop used for assistance).

During my third iteration of Slack, I had a hell of a time getting it up and running. I wanted to see if I could manually edit the necessary files to get them working... Eventually I gave up and ran netconfig, which only gave me eth0 connectivity. Went through /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf so many times I was about to go crazy. Incidentally, I can't figure out how to us vi effectively, instead, I love pico. And I had actually saved supplicant.conf to my pre-installed windows storage drive which I had allowed setup to include as mountable. Typing in a 64 char hex key is not fun. Slack was installed onto one of two newly bought 250gb mSATA drive (the other might get "Hackintosh") for a fairly new Win8 laptop.

What finally got my wireless working? Giving it a DHCP_HOSTNAME. =.="

Mind you, it's the name of the computer you are on, not the dhcp server. I use dhcp (with static assignments from the router) to make things simple.

My point is that, it could be the simplest thing giving you grief.

In case anyone is wondering, what killed my first installation was attempting to switch the log in to graphical interface. Something as simple as switching a 3 to a 4, somehow ended up with a stalled boot up saying it has nothing left to do in runlevel 9...???? What killed my second installation was attempting to use nvidia drivers... Stopped X from loading. I'm sure i missed something somewhere. More trials to go through the future.... joy. Oddly enough, I don't mean sarcastically.

hi guys,

how is this possible...i just got back from leave and turned my computer running slackware on and the network connection is working...how is this possible? before you say it was a cable etc...my internet has been working fine on my win7 laptop...but not on my desktop or netbook running slackware...very odd...can somebody try offer an explanation...or do you think the problem is likely to happen again?