Hy all,
Unfortunately the Absolute Forum can't be reached from germany any more - don't know why - always says user guest is banned.
Anyway so I thought maybe someone can help me her since Absolute is 100% Slackware.
I got the system installes. But it seems that I can't connect to the internet. Trying to pdate the system via gslapt doesn't work. Always says the repositories can't be reached. I use a home network with a skydsl modem and a router. All my other pc's can connect without a problem. It seems that something is not working right here with my Absolute install. Any ideas? I can't even set up a browser or add the Gnome BSG as said with lynx.

Hope someone can help.

Mamas

Welcome to LQ

First, how are you connecting, wired, wireless?
Is your card recognized, do you use dhcp or a fixed ip?
How do you connect, networkmanager, wicd....
What is the output from
About the absolute forum, perhaps you can create an account?

Kind regards

Sorry do have not included that information - so you can tell i'm not a pro :-)
So let's see:
1) It's a wired connection using DHCP.
I ran the network routine using the DHCP setting.

ifconfig lists a lot of things, since I can't copy and paste in bash (or at least I don't know how to do it) and this is not the computer running Absolute - it's difficult todo.
anyway the output roughly:
eth0 Link encap: Ethernet HWadrr 00:10C:A3:98:C0
UP BROADCAST MULTICATS MTU 1500 Metric:1
=> then all values following are set to 0
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xa400

lo Link encap: Local Loopback

Absolute registration:
I did that a while ago - I can't Login, can't get help, can't register - always say guest you are banned from forum, sorry.. Maybe someone can drop Paul Sherman a message about that?
I wanted to offer to help transalte his distro into German

I don't know absolute, but I would have a look at what's in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and eventually do an
(can be some dhcp client problem)

P.S. to copy and paste in console you can start gpm
P.P.S. I think you can contact Paul by his sourceforge account.

starting the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart command initiates a version 5.2.7 starting, eth= waiting for carrier
and then I get a timed out messages

What does that say??

cable unplugged?

Which kind of ethernet card do you have? Are you logged in as user or as root?

Log in as root and type ifconfig

ifconfig eth0 up

dhcpcd eth0

But I dont know if it helps you when rc.inet1 dont works for you. Maybe you skipped configuring
network when you installed Absolute. Or you dont have installed driver for your network card.

Well thank you so much already,
I believe I can circle the problem.
Network cable plugged in.
Cepoon - I tried your commands .- with the same result - timed out as stated above.

So I guess, it might be the network card, which is a separate PCI card.
How can I install a driver for that card on Slackware?

Just rebooted the system and discovered, that the system tries to start eth0 but with tghe same result.
Any ideas on how to take it from here?

Find out the name of the card and see if it is listed in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules. If it is, uncomment the line and reboot.

First, you must know which kind of card do you have. Login as root and type to console

Example my output is:

First is Ethernet, second wireless. Post here your output.

Checked the card - found all kinds of number including 3c905 CX - since it is a 3com card I checked the rc.modules file, found it, uncommented the /sbin/modules section and rebooted - nothing different though. lspci give me the ethernet controller 3com 3c905c TX(rev78).

the lspci | grep Network comman doesn't generate any output.

Found googeling, that a lot of people had trouble with the 3com.
Just a couple of days ago I tested a SUSE11.3 LXDE desktop and it got the networking right straight out of the box - so I guess there must be solution to that problem

ok here is what i found out:
lspci gave me 2 network cards. So I cut out the space in the computer housing that covered up the onboard Realtek network. Took the 3com out.
went to the rc.modules file, uncommented the Realtek 8139 module - went for reboot - and got a result.
Still not working properly.
Under lsmod I get the module 8139too but used by 0.
ifconfig states:
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10C:83:98:C0
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

rc.inet1 restart puts out:
dhpcd: version 5.2.7. starting
eth0: broadcasting for a lease
eth0: offered 192.168.0.101 from 192.168.0.1
eth0: acknowledged
eth0: checking
eth0: leased
forked to background, child pid 2097

Does that mean it's not working?

I still can't update the software in gslapt

Any suggestions?

Your card is getting an IP, 192.168.0.101
Look if you can get outside
Please post te output from
Kind regards

Okay - sinbce I can't copy and paste this is more difficult, but here it is:
route -n: Destination: gateway 192.168.0.0 / Metric 202/ eth0
Destination: 127.0.0.0 lo
Gateway: 192.168.0.1Metric:202 eth0

ping creates a never ending line of: the adress with values adfter italways adding up the number of pings and supposedly the ms response time

the rsolv.conf file creates that output: generated by dhcpd from eth0 resolv.conf can replace this line: nameserver 192.168.0.1

How can I ever stop that ping signal other tzhan closing the terminal?

Thanx again for all of your help.
A lot of these things look so easy - but it seems like they are not - or maybe only, when you know exactly what to do.
mamas

To stop ping, use
If ping gives you an answer, the connection is working
Did you also do
Does this give the same results?
What happens if you open a browser?
What are the error messages?

Kind regards