Hello everybody again
My netgear router wont give any IP adress to my Slackware Machin
and i dont know why :'(

Any suggestions what i can do?

is your card recognized, do you have drivers?
does it work with windows?
have you plugged a cable into your wireless card ?

Hi,

A little more information. Wired or wireless? Is your network device being recognized? Did you run netconfig? Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf?

As root from cli;
The above will provide some information.

I got Wired Network card.
It seems to have drivers :-p
i can activate it inside Slackware so

I run ifconfig and got that my network card got ip adress 127.0.0.1 :S
i put it on DHCP but that doesnt seem to work
i tried to put a fixed ip from the router to it would work but it didnt

well, is your card called "lo"?

run ifconfig -a, there should be a eth0 entry.
could you give ous the output of
lspci | grep Ethernet
?

my keyboard is mucked up at my server so i cant type | :-p
I checked Ifconfig -a again and yes it was "lo"
the others dont show any adress :S

Try using dhcp again. Make sure it's enabled in the router set up. And also that dhcp is enabled when you run netconfig.

FYI lo i.e. IP address 127.0.0.1 is the local loopback adapter. It is a virtual device that in a nutshell allows network applications to run without a physical network.

If you do not see any info for eth0 then you need to verify the correct module is being loaded. As already stated post the output of the console command:
lspci

Tryed that
Enabled DHCP again and ran netconfig without any success .
any other suggestions? :-p

You will not get anywhere until you have a driver loaded for your network card (as others have said).

run /sbin/lspci

When we know what your Ethernet controller is, we can proceed!

It will also help if you get your keyboard set up correctly.

When you installed slackware there was a keyboard setup routine where you test that the keys work properly -
so you can put your slack disk1 back in and run setup (keymap) again. (Or, if the keyboard problem is only in X, then you need to correct the /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the Inputdevices section. You need to specify the country and number of buttons on your keyboard) You can also run xorgconfig to do this for you, but you need to know your computer specs before you start this (and make a copy of your original xorg.config file in case it goes wrong).

While you are doing all this, find out what the ip address of your router is. 192.168.0.1 is a common one. It will be in the instruction booklet -or the cd. Then we can help you get networking going.

tobyl

i got it working with some configs and after a few reboots :-p.
Thanks for the help guys

Cool. If possible could you let us know what you did so that users having your issue in the future can benefit from your experience?
Glad you're up and running.

i could if i know what i did :-p
haha
it went down again now :-p
so now i need help again hehe

Well, if DHCP doesn't works, maybe you should try to set it manually:

#ifconfig ethX (Where X is the number of your ethernet card) 192.168.0.13 (your IP) netmask 255.255.255.0

#route add default gw 192.168.0.1 (router's IP)


Rodrigo.

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