Hi, I have tried to install Slackware 13.37 a few times now, and finally (I believe), I got it right, and even the lilo worked as well, everything went great, but only problem is, I can not get online, and I really haven't a clue what I am suppose to put in the fields required to set-up my wired broadband/cable...

Is there some way I can get a detailed log of what equipment I have in my PC(using windoze XP pro), so that I might be able to show you great people what I am currently running, just in-case there's a problem with the Slackware picking up my equipment?

Many thanks for your help, and I really am looking forward to using Slackware.
Thanks again.
Mog.

lsusb to list usb wifi devices (and everuything else
lspci
lspcmcia to l;ist those areas. Each takes a -v option, and a -n to pass the numeric device id
lshal to list EVERYthing. Handiest here is
lshal |grep info\.product to see what hal calls it. Then pick out your device (Wifi, or whatever)

lshal |grep -C12 your_device

The following is what I have been able to find out, with regards to my internet connection device/s(?)

Realtek RTL8185 54M Wireless LAN Network Adapter

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| Item | Value |
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| Adapter Number | 1 |
| Adapter Name | Realtek RTL8185 54M Wireless LAN Network Adapter |
| DNS Host Name | admin |
| DNS Servers | |
| IP Address | 0.0.0.0 |
| IP Subnet | |
| Default IP Gateway | |
| DHCP Enabled | Yes |
| DHCP Server | |
| DHCP IP Address | |
| Status Code | 0 |
| Adapter Status | This device is working properly. |
| Adapter Type | Ethernet 802.3 |
| MAC Address | 00:11:3B:18:13:30 |
| Connection Status | Media disconnected |
| Connection Speed | 54 Mbps |
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Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC

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| Item | Value |
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| Adapter Number | 2 |
| Adapter Name | Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC |
| DNS Host Name | admin |
| DNS Servers | |
| IP Address | 0.0.0.0 |
| IP Subnet | 255.255.255.0 |
| Default IP Gateway | |
| DHCP Enabled | Yes |
| DHCP Server | 192.168.0.1 |
| DHCP IP Address | 192.168.0.7 |
| DHCP Lease Obtained | 7/14/2011 4:25:47 PM |
| DHCP Lease Expires | 7/14/2011 5:25:47 PM |
| Status Code | 0 |
| Adapter Status | This device is working properly. |
| Adapter Type | Ethernet 802.3 |
| MAC Address | 00:11: D8:BE:6F:67 |
| Connection Status | Connected |
| Connection Speed | 100 Mbps |
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1394 Net Adapter

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| Item | Value |
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| Adapter Number | 3 |
| Adapter Name | 1394 Net Adapter |
| DNS Host Name | admin |
| DNS Servers | |
| IP Address | 0.0.0.0 |
| IP Subnet | |
| Default IP Gateway | |
| DHCP Enabled | Yes |
| DHCP Server | |
| DHCP IP Address | |
| Status Code | 0 |
| Adapter Status | This device is working properly. |
| Adapter Type | Ethernet 802.3 |
| MAC Address | 52:01:8C: DB:69:15 |
| Connection Status | Connected |
| Connection Speed | 400 Mbps |
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Network BIOS

LAN Adapter #1

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| Item | Value |
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| Adapter Number | 1 |
| Software Release | 3.0 |
| MAC Address | 00:11:d8:be:6f:67 |
| Adapter Type | Ethernet |
| Maximum Sessions | 16 |
| Sessions Pending | 0 |
| Maximum Data | 65535 Bytes |
| Maximum Datagram | 512 Bytes |
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hope this is of some help to helping me out.

Many thanks again.
Mog.

OKOK. Too much detail.

8185 is your wlan device
8139 is an ancient variety of nic (wired)
1394 is firewire stuff.

Head off to http://www.linuxwireless.org and see what they say about it. They probably have a page on it.

found a page on here somewhere, though forget where it is now lol, but there was a list of hardware there, and it looks like the Network Adapter is listed there and seems to be ok, also found something else on the slack book that I might try as well.
thanks for taking the time to help me out, am sure to be back again, with even less hair than before lol.

my thanks again.

Mog.

Is that information listed a printout from Windows?

Looks like you have a simple setup with a cable modem connected to the 8139 network adapter and you get an IP address via DHCP.

It that is correct than you only need to check that the network adapter is getting a driver running in Linux and then configure the network to use DHCP. (quick check is run 'ip link show' and you should get a line with eth0 at the start ignore the rest)

You can use the netconfig tool to setup your network select the DHCP option when you get it.

did a quick reinstall, and checked a few extra boxes, (as Im new to this and am looking forward to learning a lot more about this slackware) I really haven't a clue which ones I checked, but it had something to do with the dhcp and networking side of things at least, lol

many thanks again for the ideas and help.
am sure I will be frequent here, lol

thanks again.