Cant get on the net please help

[Wolfsblood]

Hi I'm using slackware 8, and I have been having alot of trouble getting onto the internet, I run netconfig and I make a hostname for my computer, then I make the domain MCSE-2000 (My windows network) but every time I try to get on mozilla or netscape it always gives me an error saying it cant find the site or something. Cna someone please give me some help...

[scanez]

Could be many things- if the network card is configured properly, it may be a nameserver problem. Do you know the addres of your DNS? Put it in /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is your server's address.

Run /sbin/ifconfig to see if your card is listed and with the correct settings. Then post back with some more info, questions, etc.

SC

[Wolfsblood]

I ran /sbin/ifconfig and it just has the loopback etc. When I try pinging an address on my network it just says Network is unreachable.

[scanez]

Okay, so your card is not configured. What type of card do you have? Do you know the ip, gateway, subnet, etc. to use, or do you use DHCP?

SC

[Wolfsblood]

I have a Kingston 110tx I think. I had it in my old system and it worked fine with red hat 7.0

[Wolfsblood]

Oh yeah and I know all the IP, gateway etc stuff too.

[bdg1983]

Do you know what module your ethernet card uses? Can you see it listed?

lsmod will show you.

insmod <module_name> to load.

[Wolfsblood]

It's using the tulip module and it's already loaded.

[scanez]

So the module is loaded? Cool. Okay now try this

ifconfig eth0 up xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx if your ip address. Then run ifconfig and see if eth0 is there. Do you know what file in slackware controls the network interfaces? In debian it is /etc/network/interfaces but I think it is something different in slackware.

SC