Partitons.

[TheSickEmpire]

Well, the only reason I planned on useing PM is because I didin't know Slack could do it for me. I've never used fdisk, but I'm pretty sure I could figure cfdisk out.

I'm gonna go boot the cd now, and Phish, thanks for the info. I'm going to print it now.

[kern]

if you didn't know slack could do it for you.

you obviously havent done much reading of the slackbook

www.slackbook.org


may I recommend another distro such as debian or ubuntu?

it'll just save us time answering your future questions in the slackware channel thats all.


slackware, is not, I repeat, not for people unfamiliar with Linux.

[TheSickEmpire]

Well, it's installed.

When I boot it useing LILO it stops on this line:

<6>pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5

Any reason it'd do this?

EDIT: I bypassed this by running 'Linux nohotplug' in LILO.

Now, I'm logged into root. Considering I have no idea what to do now that I'm here, I'm going to ask here then go read the slackbook.

Thanks.

[DrCR]

slackware, is not, I repeat, not for people unfamiliar with Linux.

To some extent I disagree - getting started on Slackware forces the newbie to learn. Sure, if the person isn't a computer geek of sorts already, some more noobish distro is defintily recommended (like linspire if you read some of the mags lol), but if their sufficently geek minded or don't mind learning, then I'd say SW is an excellent 1st time distro. I guess I'm biased though, I got started on SW. I confess though, I mostly use Vector now.

[TheSickEmpire]

slackware, is not, I repeat, not for people unfamiliar with Linux.

To some extent I disagree - getting started on Slackware forces the newbie to learn. Sure, if the person isn't a computer geek of sorts already, some more noobish distro is defintily recommended (like linspire if you read some of the mags lol), but if their sufficently geek minded or don't mind learning, then I'd say SW is an excellent 1st time distro. I guess I'm biased though, I got started on SW. I confess though, I mostly use Vector now.

I'd agree, when pointed in the right direction (slackbook) it's actually very easy to get slackware up and running. But, yeah, you're right you have to be in a geek mindset.

Now to get networking setup. ><

[TheBigPhish]

"netconfig"!

[TheSickEmpire]

"netconfig"!

Yeah, I gotta install the module for my modem first. Gotta figure that out first. =/

[Gnux]

"netconfig"!

Yeah, I gotta install the module for my modem first. Gotta figure that out first. =/

And what kind of modem it is btw?

[TheSickEmpire]

"netconfig"!

Yeah, I gotta install the module for my modem first. Gotta figure that out first. =/

And what kind of modem it is btw?

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

The bare.i kernel has the drivers for my modem already on it, and I have them set to work. Only problem is, I can't even connect to my router. I've been following with network section in slackbook, and what I've done is in the files above. I'm not really sure what to do next, which is why I came back here. If anyone could take a look at those any tell me what I need to add.

Just to add, I've never done this before. I'm a windows newb, never had to setup the network by hand. So, I'm essentially learning all of this as I go along.

Also, the modem I'm useing is:

Realtek RTL8193 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC(it's integrated).

Useing this driver from the kernel:

RealTek RTL-8129/8130/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support

[Gnux]

Realtek RTL8193 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC(it's integrated).

Useing this driver from the kernel:

RealTek RTL-8129/8130/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support

I'm not sure to understand here: u said u're using a driver from windows to get ur nic work?
U don't need any special driver etc..u should have a module from the linux kernel to handle ur card.
I found this sentence on the web:

The Network Card is a Realtek RTL8193. It was running immediately after install, no problems encountered with it.

Here: http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~rouvas/compaq/ it was in 2002 with a patched 2.4.18 kernel
The module seems to be the rtl8139 and should be in ur kernel u could look here: http://www.scyld.com/rtl8139.html. It seems to be the main page of ur driver. Not updated since a while so this driver must be include in ur kernel and a little google search: http://lxr.linux.no/source/drivers/net/8139too.c
This driver is in the linux kernel since a long time. So it should work if this module is compile (and it should be by default) what gives a

lsmod | grep rtl8139

?
And could u paste the output of ifconfig -a here plz? And a ifconfig eth0?
U must fulfil the resolv.conf file with the dns of ur provider and not the ip of ur router.