Just installed Salix64 14.1.

I have my desktop hard wired to my Comcast router/modem. I want a static connection. For DNS, I always use Comcast servers 75.75.75.75 and 75.75.76.76; I think.

My internal IP, for the router is 192.168.1.1, I am trying to set up the system with a static IP of 192.168.1.109.

Before I installed Salix, I had CentOS 7 installed. CentOS 7 had no problem finding the network.

I only have one connection, that is my eth0 port. I have no wireless.

I did an

# ifconfig 192.168.1.109 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0

and

# route add default gw 192.168.1.1

I am able to ping local network but not yahoo.com.

Also, I do not have an /etc/sysconfig directory.

Slackware has a script called netconfig. Did you run that as root during installation? If not, give it a try, you should be able to configure eth0 with it.

The other way is to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and add what you need in there for eth0.

BTW, I run Slackware 14.1; I'm guessing Salix is very close to the same, at least as far as using scripts, and configuration.

Hope this helps.

Thank you, I did not know about netconfig.

I did manage to get the network set up, all command line. Been a long time since I did that.

# ifconfig 192.168.1.109 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0
# route add default gw 192.168.1.1
# vi resolv.conf

set nameservers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4