Configuring my network

[Nallelcm]

Well, i dont know much...
my router is 192.168.0.1 so i assume that, that is my gateway.... 192.168.0.102 is my computer's ip...
255.255.255.0 is the subnet mask...
now how do i enterthis in and make it work!?

[lakerdonald]

well to set the netmask and the IP you can do:

su -
ifconfig eth0 netmask 255,255.255.0 address 192.168.0.102

[sarumont]

Make sure that you do:

ifconfig eth0 up

after you run lakerdonald's command.

[Nallelcm]

i found out my ip was actully 192.168.0.103.... so i typed in so this is what i got

nallelcm@nall:~$ su
Password:
root@nall:/home/nallelcm# ifconfig eth0 netmask 255.255.255.0 address 192.168.0.103
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
address: Host name lookup failure
ifconfig: '--help' gives usage information.
root@nall:/home/nallelcm# _

And I'm still unclear on where to put my gateway information

[adrenaline]

Here is how I get mine working:
I run netconfig as root
one of the questions is confusing. It asks for a qualified domain name and when you enter one it writes it to /etc/resolv.conf Now if you put in something like <your isp.com> it writes that to the file. Well that doesn't work for me, so I have to re-edit that file to use my isp dns IP
example:
cd /etc
pico resolv.conf
nameserver 63.blah.blah.10
nameserver 63.blah.blah.11
Blah being whatever your ISP dns of course.
CNTRL-X Y enter
Reboot
Here is something else I have had to do in the past.

Sometimes the gateway doesn't get written. So if you do the preceding and you type
ifconfig and you have an ip and subnet mask
then go to
cd /etc/rc.d/
pico
rc.inet1.conf
at the very bottom you will see "gateway" with after the word gateway there will be quotes, inside the quotes type your gateway

gateway"192.168.0.1"

Save it then reboot.

I actually have written scripts for different places that I take my laptop I run the scripts and it does all of this for me when I go to where ever I go.

I hope this helps. There is probably a better way of doing this but this way works for me.

Let me know if that is not clear.

Good Luck
Mike

[Nallelcm]

Here is how I get mine working:
I run netconfig as root
one of the questions is confusing. It asks for a qualified domain name and when you enter one it writes it to /etc/resolv.conf Now if you put in something like <your isp.com> it writes that to the file. Well that doesn't work for me, so I have to re-edit that file to use my isp dns IP
example:
cd /etc
pico resolv.conf
nameserver 63.blah.blah.10
nameserver 63.blah.blah.11
Blah being whatever your ISP dns of course.
CNTRL-X Y enter
Reboot
Here is something else I have had to do in the past.

Sometimes the gateway doesn't get written. So if you do the preceding and you type
ifconfig and you have an ip and subnet mask
then go to
cd /etc/rc.d/
pico
rc.inet1.conf
at the very bottom you will see "gateway" with after the word gateway there will be quotes, inside the quotes type your gateway

gateway"192.168.0.1"

Save it then reboot.

I actually have written scripts for different places that I take my laptop I run the scripts and it does all of this for me when I go to where ever I go.

I hope this helps. There is probably a better way of doing this but this way works for me.

Let me know if that is not clear.

Good Luck
Mike

i dont seem to have a rc.inet1.conf i have a rc.inet1 but no .conf?

[adrenaline]

Let me see your rc.d file.

[Nallelcm]

Let me see your rc.d file.

./
../
rc.0@
rc.4
rc.6
rc.K
rc.M
rc.S
rc.acpid
rc.atalk
rc.font.sample
rc.gpm-sample
rc.hotplug
rc.httpd
rc.inet1
rc.inet2
rc.local
rc.modules
rc.news@
rc.nfsd
rc.pcmcia
rc.samba
rc.sendmail
rc.serial
rc.sshd
rc.syslog
rc.sysninit
rc.yp

i hope this what you wanted to see

[adrenaline]

What Slackware version are you running?
In my rc.inet1 it starts out

get the configuration from /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf;
./etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

Check yours

Mike

BTW I am using slack 10.

[Nallelcm]

I am using version 9.0