Slackware connection
 

HI all,
just installed Slackware 9.0 and seems pretty cool till the moment but having problems connecting it to the internet, i have my cablemodem connected directly to my network card. Already did the networkconfiguration with the NETCONFIG command and run /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 and inet2 but still doesn't work
Any Slackware users out there know whats wrong?

thanks in advanced

Well, theres a problem with your thing. ;)

Could you give us more information.

sure i can, what more information do you need?

i have two harddrives, in the first one i have windowsXP and Redhat 9.0 using the grub bootloader and in the second i have Slcakware, i boot Slackware from a floppy, don't know how to add it to the grub bootloader yet, i know is in /etc/grub.conf but don;t know how to configure it for Slackware to boot from there, thats another question.. anyway my other two O.S connect perfectly to the internet and Slackware doesn't and don't know why, i already run the netconfig command and configure it, my network card was detected, also run the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 and the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 command

here is my ifconfig and my grub.conf



# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:7C:DA:64
inet addr: MY IP Bcast:MY BCAST Mask:255.255.254.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1798 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:119788 (116.9 Kb) TX bytes:1710 (1.6 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6540 (6.3 Kb) TX bytes:6540 (6.3 Kb)



# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,4)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdc5
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hdc
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-18.9.img

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Is dhcpd running? Most cable modem IP addresses are assigned via DHCP and if it isn't grabbing an address you have no net.

And the problem isn't with your bootloader, so don't worry about that information. :)

i know my bootloader is not the problem, that was another question, i wanted to know how can i add slackware to my grub bootloader.

will check if dhcpd is running

fix the connection problem, thanks

about the grub bootloader, do you know how to add slackware to it?

i know i have to add this to /etc/grub.conf but is incomplete

this is the one for redhat
title Redhat
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-18.9.img

so slackware must be:

title Slackware
root (hd1.4)
????????
??????????????

I know squat all about GRUB. I'm a LILO man.

http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub-0.90/.../grub_toc.html

Try this page. It might have some helpful information. I dunno. I like LILO.

Good luck.

ok , thanks .. i'm just being a lazy ass, better start reading :)