Getting my network setup in slack.

[TheSickEmpire]

EDIT: I've established that my network card is compatible with slackware.

Now, how do I go about installing the module into the kernel?

[mynameistmp]

Check out modprobe/insmod/lsmod/rmmod

[TheSickEmpire]

Well, turns out my kernel has drivers for my network card. Yet, I still don't get anything. I'm going through the network portion of slackbook, www.slackbook.org

http://thesickempire.net/misc/linuxnetworkconfig.zip

Those are the files I need to edit, I've done what it's told me based on the information I got from running "ipconfig /all" in windows. Please, someone, show me what I've done wrong.

I'm a noob here, so, treat me like one. I don't want to miss anything.

[Sidoh]

I'm not sure if my advice will help or not, but I hope it will.

Are you using DHCP or a Static IP address?  If you're using DHCP, make sure you're assigned an IP address:

sidoh@tehserver:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:CA:3A:7E:C4
          inet addr:10.0.0.15  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:114926743 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:152516208 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:16 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1114152487 (1062.5 Mb)  TX bytes:3104831718 (2960.9 Mb)
          Interrupt:10

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:5311 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5311 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:274289 (267.8 Kb)  TX bytes:274289 (267.8 Kb)

If you're not assigned an IP address, try assigning yourself one by editing /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

sidoh@tehserver:~$ vi /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

When you're doing this, make sure you set your DNS and Gateway to the IP address of your router.  Also, make sure to follow the patterns for IP addresses that you get from your windows box by running ipconfig /all.  Keep the same subnet mask too.

# /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
#
# This file contains the configuration settings for network interfaces.
# If USE_DHCP[interface] is set to "yes", this overrides any other settings.
# If you don't have an interface, leave the settings null ("").

# Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[0]="10.0.0.15"
NETMASK[0]="255.255.255.0"
USE_DHCP[0]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""

# Config information for eth1:
IPADDR[1]=""
NETMASK[1]=""
USE_DHCP[1]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[1]=""

# Config information for eth2:
IPADDR[2]=""
NETMASK[2]=""
USE_DHCP[2]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[2]=""

# Config information for eth3:
IPADDR[3]=""
NETMASK[3]=""
USE_DHCP[3]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[3]=""

# Default gateway IP address:
GATEWAY="10.0.0.2"

# Change this to "yes" for debugging output to stdout.  Unfortunately,
# /sbin/hotplug seems to disable stdout so you'll only see debugging output
# when rc.inet1 is called directly.
DEBUG_ETH_UP="no"