Hey guys, got a small problem here. A long time ago I installed slack 10 and had it running fine. Since then I've uninstalled and gone back to WinXP. Now that I'm a little further along, I wanted to give the new slack 10.2 a try, so I was planning on installing my slack 10 and upgrading it via swaret or something.

Anyways, I've got slack 10 installed and xfce running fine, but I can't seem to get the internet up. I'm connecting to cable internet via my onboard Nforce Ethernet into a Router.

The slack isntallation is on a 20 gig partition on teh same HD as my WinXp partition, which connects to the internet fine.

I've tried

#netconfig
# /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart

to no avail.

when I restart, it jsut sets my MAC address and returns me to the prompt.

If I try jsut running dhcpcd it said "dhcpcd. not running", and if I do dhcpcd -d -k, it seems to just sit there and tiem out

The weird thing is, my router recognizes it, under my dhcp table it's got an ip/mac address assigned to it and the name I assigned it when I ran netconfig.

lspci shows the Nforce ethernet on the lsit, but when I run lsmod I can't seem to find it on that list.

Just one last note, after all that in me /var/log.messages I have this

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: /sbin/dhcpcd -d -t 10 -h b0x eth0

b0x being the name assigned to my computer.

anyone have any ideas/things to try? I'm completely lost here.

Edit: ok just tried somethign else

# ping -c 3 127.0.0.1

seems to work fine, no packet loss and every packet goes through without a hitch

# ping 3 127.0.0.1

gives me a 'network unreachable' error. thought it was odd.

So, the only problem is your PC is not assigning an IP address via dhcp?

I'm not sure exactly what the problem is. The routers assigned me an ip, but yea, it seems the pc doesn't pick it up.

Your router isnt a DHCP server? whats the ip address of your router?
what does "ifconfig" show?
In windows what does "ipconfig /all" show?

The router is set up for DHCP, it assigns my Windows install one, as well as my 3 other roomates (all running win xp).

Here's that output

It does not seem your NIC driver is loaded or included in the kernel. Did you check and see if a driver for Linux is available?

What is the model number of the NIC? Also, what kernel are you running?

I checked for available drivers and there were some. grabbed the .tgz and isntalled it as root, didnt seem to make a difference.

As far as the model number, that I dont know. It's onboard, but if it helps I have an Asus A7N8X-X which uses the Nforce 2 chipset. So the Ethernet is a Nvidia Nforce 2 thing.

These are what I grabbed: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0248.html

As far as the kernel, I'm not too keen on any of that (pretty much a linux noob), so I installed the kernel that I used throughout the installation, vmlinuz comes to mind.

see what "lspci" shows,:
for an nforce2 eth card you should see a line that looks similar to this (this is what mine shows)
---------------------------
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
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If you cant find any eth cards, try upgrading the kernel, I'm using 2.6.13. (if you need help with that let me know)

If you find the card try this:

a closer look at the drivers i got shows there a tad old, I grabbed some ones from august off the nvidia site. when I was installing them it through a fuss about not being able to find a kernel interface and made it's own. Got an error when installing the sound drivers, but the network ones installed fine.

lspci gives me a line identical to what you put up.

typed in both those commands and restarted, still nothing..

if this helps i did a ifconfig eth0, which i didn't post yet

Could you try add in /etc/modprobe.conf (kernel 2.6) or /etc/modules.conf (kernel 2.4) :
Then :
I have a nvdia net built-in card that works well with forcedeth driver

do the lspci thing that i suggested

ok tried that, didn't seem to work.

I got an error along the lines of:

2.4.26/kernel/drivers/net/forcedeth.o.gz init module: no such device

I did an lsmod to look around, and didn't see forcedeth in there, however I did see nvnet. So i tried changing the commands you gave me replaceing forcedeth with nvnet, which didn't give any errors, just said that the .conf was newer then the .dsp. ran netconfig, and didn't get anything though.

Ok sorry to double post, just wanted to let you all know, I jsut re-installed quick. Everythign works fine, it autofound forcedeth and that's working great.

Just wanted to thank everyone for all their help, no idea what happened. now to get onto updating.