slacktop 8.1 internet connection
I've got a laptop running slack 8.1 (slacktop, get it? =P) and i've been hooking it up via usb/cat-5 directly to my RCA cable modem. It's been working fine both ways, but then I started setting up a network. I got so far as to have my linksys router act as a dhcpd and it worked fine. Then I blew up (seriously...bang, smoke, fire) my other computer and took the network down. I reset all the dhcd information so it wouldnt try to dhcp_request 192.168.1.101 on startup. Now I simply get the "timeout waiting for dhcp server response" error when I try and use my NIC and the USB doesnt seem to do a damn thing. I was thinking I could just run netconfig and use a static IP. I'd use the cable modem as the gateway, and I have the DNS servers it uses, but i'm not sure what the actual IP address I should use would be, or if that's even what I need to do.
I still have the linksys router, but i can't get a connection to my cable modem with cablemodem>>router>>slacktop...and i used dhcp with netconfig...
I've got a xircom NIC and an RCA USB cable modem(with cat-5 as well, which makes me wonder why USB is even in the name at all)
Thanks in advance
Last edited by Autism; 08-04-2003 at 10:31 PM.
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