Internet access with Slax

[omgitsadam]

Alright, so i downloaded and burned a Slax live cd today (my very first experience with linux), and i have it working pretty well... all the apps included and such work. My problem is, i cannot seem to get an internet connection up. I use cable internet, and i have a netgear router (which i also use to connect wirelessly through a laptop upstairs, but i'm not putting linux on that anyway so i don't think it matters). I opened the "Set IP" app included in the home directory in slax, and put in the information that Ipconfig on windows gave me, but i still could not connect. I also tried to use the ifconfig shell command (read how to use it on a different site), but i don't think i really understood how that worked, so i got an error that the device was not found.

Anyway, what i am basically requesting is a brief walkthrough on how to get this working (please keep in mind that my experience with slax and linux in general is very limited).

Thanks in advance, i appreciate it.

-Adam

[placeb0]

You havent given us enough information about your network, but here goes

try this(at a shell of course :P)

#ifconfig eth0 up
#dhcpcd eth0

on your next post try give us more information about your home network, k (like do you have a dhcpd on your subnet, do you need pppoe/a, what is your ethernet cards id, things that this)

though come to think about it, what I told you above should work, everything default.. straight out the box.

Bruce Blacklaws

[WillyW]

I am most interesting in following this thread, as I'm in a very similar situation.

Alright, so i downloaded and burned a Slax live cd today (my very first experience with linux),

I'm only a couple days ahead of you with Slax. And I've fiddled around a little bit with Puppy Linux live CD.

and i have it working pretty well... all the apps included and such work. My problem is, i cannot seem to get an internet connection up.

Same problem. Can't get the network interface card to be 'found'. With Slax, that is. I know the card is good, because Puppy finds it just fine. Using dsl , not cable here - but I don't think you and I are that far along yet - first the nic must be recognized. I think.

I use cable internet, and i have a netgear router (which i also use to connect wirelessly through a laptop upstairs, but i'm not putting linux on that anyway so i don't think it matters). I opened the "Set IP" app included in the home directory in slax, and put in the information that Ipconfig on windows gave me, but i still could not connect. I also tried to use the ifconfig shell command (read how to use it on a different site), but i don't think i really understood how that worked, so i got an error that the device was not found.

I've tried a few things here, and still am not past the "device not found" too.

Anyway, what i am basically requesting is a brief walkthrough on how to get this working (please keep in mind that my experience with slax and linux in general is very limited).

Exactly what I need too, so I'm looking forward to the replies you get.

I'll share with you some things I've been doing - maybe one of them will help you - , not that I know what I'm doing yet.

placeb0 said to try ifconfig eth0 up .
From what I've discovered, that won't do anything for you because you've already said the the device is not found.
You said you'd tried some commands at the command line.
You can try ifconfig -a . Others responding to you here will probably want to know what you get with that.
I bet you don't see eth0.


Try lsmod | less . Pipe the output of the lsmod command into the less command, so you can scroll up and down, and search it.
Look for anything that looks like it might have something to do with your card.
I doubt you will find anything, but you'll want to be able to do this after somebody tells you how to install the driver for your network interface card.

Try lspci .
When I use this command, the output returned does show my nic. Hopefully yours will too.
Others here will probably want to know what it says in regards to your nic.

I bet they tell you that you need to install the driver module for your nic.
The first hard part is just figuring out what it is named!
Hopefully it will already exist in your Slax installation.

I have the Slax Kill Bill version btw. version 5.1.8.1

[ you can get info about your kernel with uname -r .
Try man uname for more info on uname and command options ]

Once you know the name of the driver module for your card, and if it exists in your install, I bet they tell you to install it with
modprobe -v <driver_module_filename_here> .
The -v is optional, without it you get nothing back on the screen.
THEN, after you install it with modprobe, if you do the lsmod | less again,
you should find it..... assuming the install didn't come back with any errors.
It may install more than one module, if it realizes that it is necessary. Mine did.

My problem is that even after doing the above, install seems (to me fwiw) to go ok, and I can find the newly installed module with lsmod|less,
when I then try ifconfig -a , eth0 still doesn't appear.
So, when I try ifconfig eth0 , I still get the device not found message.

I hope you have better luck.

I hope the things I mentioned above help you get a feel for it too.

After we see what can can be learned from responses to this thread, and if I still can't solve my problem, I may start my own with specifics about my card, etc.