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I installed Slackware 10.2 today and everything seems to have gone OK except for one thing: ifconfig only shows "lo" and I can't get it online. I tried searching these forums and Google for my model network card without luck. There were a few similar topics talking about modules and stuff, but they were old, and I'm a newbie who doesn't understand any of it. :P
This card works under Linux, I've got one myself. Does "ifconfig -a" show an eth0 (usually, if there's no IP address assigned to an interface, it won't show up if you just do "ifconfig")? Try running netconfig (as root) and then "ifconfig eth0 up" and "dhcpcd eth0" (assuming you're using DHCP).
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