Slackware on a 166mhz

[nathanallan]

I have a few questions. I'm still kind of a newbie and have had this thing working, so now I wanna make it work.

I have a Toshiba laptop with a 166mhz proc, 20gig hdd and 96mb ram. Slackware is on it with no problems. I have been using the fluxbox gui and that seems to work okay. I have a network card, a 3Com etherlink III 10BASE-T that is detected at boot and mounted(model 3C589C).

I can't get it to see either the win2k machine or the win95 machine that I attach through a switch.

Is there a tutorial that I can read up on or advice? I really don't know how to network this rig. I'd really like to go wireless but I'll settle for wired for now. Once I figure that out I'll work on the wireless stuff.

Is there a graphical way to do this? I'll go for code with vi if needed to edit any files.

Nathan

[psych-major]

I assume you're still booting into runlevel 3, and then starting X with startx?
Slack has a nice graphical network tool available under the CLI:
as root run netconfig
it's self-explanatory from there.

After that is done, run ifconfig eth0 up to make sure the interface is active.
Also, cd into the /etc/rc.d directory and as root run ./rc.inet1 and ./rc.inet2
(A reboot does the same thing, you won't have to do these steps every time.)
Then ifconfig by itself will show the status of the NIC.


Once your networking is up, you will need samba to access files on Windows machines. It should already be installed, so do a search on it here on this forum and you should find what you need.

And yes, there are graphical utilities for all of these things, but I don't know enough about fluxbox to tell you where to find them.

[crow2icedearth]

then from there just ping the ip of the windows boxs... if you want to the slackware machine to share windows files you need to setup SAMBA on slackware. good luck. I miss slackware, Its such a good distro, i just have moved on to better ones.

[psych-major]

I miss slackware, Its such a good distro, i just have moved on to better ones.

I know what you mean. I still run Slackware on my workstation/file server at the office. It's like an old Toyota truck: easy on resources, dependable and will run forever.

But on my new laptop, the 2.4.33 kernel just wasn't cutting it, and I just don't have time to mess around with a kernel upgrade, so I tried Kubuntu, and I'm totally hooked!