Cannot get internet in slackware.

[Game master pro]

I did a fresh install of slackware 10.2. and set up the internet how i did it before. this is on a new computer though. I have tried using 3 different network cards. Each time i try doing "dhcpcd eth0" as root. Nothing happens, it hangs there, but if i do "dhcpcd eth1" it will just go to the bash prompt again. Usually meaning it is connected, but oh no, still nothing. Can anyone give me some help here

[Dapper Dan]

Did you also do:

/sbin/ifconfig eth* up

?

[rob.rice]

open another VT
check for your ethernet card in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and uncomment the line for it
copy the line (with gpm )on the other VT past to the command line hit enter
run ifconfig to check your NIC you may need to tweak the settings
the only place for info on kernel modules is in the kernel source
the documentaion or the module source itself
then edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet.conf
look for "#config information for eth0:
below that there is a line USE_DHCP[0]=""
change it to USE_DHCP[0]="yes"
you should be on the net as soon as you reboot or run
/etc/rc.d/rc.inetd restart
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
dhcpd dosen't work without inetd running and starting inetd is a little complex so let the scripts handle it

[kern]

just run netconfig as root

[themiln]

I assume you have multilpe nic's!

It may help to check your routing.

lets say you have eth0 configured with a static IP of 192.168.0.1
and eth1 configured to be a DCHP client that connects to your broadband modem/router which is handing out leases. It's IP is 10.1.1.1.

To check your card assignments type....

[root@linuxbox root]# ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:12:44:39:37:18 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.0.1/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global eth0
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,NOTRAILERS,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:52:bf:e4:81:15 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.1.1.2/8 brd 10.255.255.255 scope global eth1

If that's cool check your routing table like so...

[root@linuxbox root]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
10.0.0.0        *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 eth1
default         192.168.0.1        0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth1

The last line above is the default gateway. This should point to your modem/router IP address. Otherwise surf's not up.

To change the default gateway issue the following

route add default gw 10.1.1.1

Hope that helps!