Not connecting to the internet
 

Hi,

I've finally installed Slackware succesfull,well allmost.I can't connect to the internet.During the installation I had to choose a modem type,but I didn't know which one was the right one for me,so I just picked one.I have cable internet.Could anyone help me solving this problem?

kind regards,
Deelk

Run # netconfig.

It says that the command is not found.

How could that be? You don't need # sign - it only shows that the command must be run in terminal by root.

It sounds like you chose the wrong connection type. Don't worry it's not a big deal. Edit rc.inet1.conf in /etc/rc.d

If you're using eth0 (1st ethernet card) for your connection, which would be pretty normal, then set DHCP to yes like this.

This will make your ISP assign you an IP address and everything should work without much setup.

I logged in as root,opened xterm typed netconfig and when I press enter it says that the command is not found.

@Randux:I will try that.I will let you know how it went.

Thanx

Edit:How do I know what I have to fill in after NETMASK and DCHP_HOSTNAME?

If you installed Slackware normally, the command should be there. You should have tcpip installed. Check it with pkgtool.

DHCP fills that stuff in, you don't have to do anything except exactly as shown.

For some reason I don't have rc.inet1.conf in /etc/rc.d.

@Alien_Hominid:
I will try that asap,but I have to run now.Thanx

This is also from tcpip package. In addition, check if you have etc package installed.

Then it will be hard to connect to the internet :p

Could you maybe explain how to install tcpip from pkgtool?And what do you mean with etc installed?Do you mean that packages category that you can choose at the installation of slack?Thanks for your effort guys:)

Ok. Firstly run pkgtool in your terminal.
By selecting view in the opened window, you can check which packages are installed. If you press enter on the package name, you will get detailed description of the installed package. So check if you have tcpip and etc packages installed. If not, go to http://www.slackware.it/en/pb/, enter package name (for example, tcpip), download it and install by issuing installpkg tcpip-version.tgz, then run netconfig. That's all.
As well, you can install tcpip (like any other official) package from your Slackware 1CD n/ series running the same installpkg command, which is used for installing all Slackware packages (they should end in tgz).
Tell if you didn't understand something.

First of all,thanx a bunch.I've installed tcpip succesfully from the slackware cd1.Now I'm trying to set it up correctly by using he netconfig.I don't know how,so I'm going to follow these instructions:
http://www.slackware.com/config/network.php

@mdarby:Thanx for your effort.As you see,it already worked using the methof of Alien_Hominid :)

His method is much quicker but idea is the same.

I can't get it to work.Could anyone please tell me how to configure it correctly?I've got cable internet.Thanx in advance

Have you installed the TCPIP package?
Do you get any errors?
What exactly happens when you ping google.com?
Did your ISP give you any information regarding IPs or gateways?

When I launch firefox,it says that the url is not found.I don't get any errors.Uhm,what is ISP?

Isp - internet service provider. As mdarby said ping google.com. If it doesn't respond, ping your gateway.

Looking in your browser is a very quick way to see if you are connected, but it's not the best way.

Try this as root:

And paste that into the entry. It will help see what is the status of your connections. And see if you can find any messages about DHCP connecting- it will give you the address of your ISP (internet service provider- fancy name for internet company).

Make sure that you have rc.inet1 and rc.inet2 scripts in /etc/rc.d with executable attribute (x) something like this when you do ls -l in /etc/rc.d

because these scripts have to be executed at startup

Don't ping google.com - it's a search engine not a test sandbox.
Don't ping microsoft.com - it doesn't reply to ICMP packets AFAIK
Just ping some random address.

Does it harm google for pinging it? If pinging harmed in some way, they would disable response to icmp packets. Pinging google is good because their server is always online not like some random address.

This is bad advice. You know that google.com is going to be online, "some random address" will get you some random results.

Here is google's ip - 72.14.207.99, if your dns for somehow is not working.

Everybody's posting except the OP ;) There, now I did it too.