Network

[ErkaA]

Hi!

I have just installed Slackware 10.2 on my computer, everything worked fine except that the internet isn't working.

I think the problem is that the system won't find my network card.
When I run ifconfig I see this:

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes: (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Any ideas?

/Erik

[kern]

upgrade to 2.6 kernel packages in testing/

you will have hotplug take care of your ethernet card and it'll come up as eth0


edit: if you really want to stick with the 2.4 series kernel. you will have to manually select and load the module by inserting or decommenting its name from the file /etc/rc.d/rc.modules


I'd suggest an "lspci -vv | grep Eth" to find your card type / model , then modprobe -l | grep "keyword" to find the correct driver module, if you know the card model already, you just need to find the correct module to load. remember to edit rc.modules, else next reboot the module will not be loaded on boot and you'll be back at square one.

[ErkaA]

I'm already using the 2.6 kernel.

Could you explain what i should do a little bit easier, this is the first time im using Linux.

[kern]

I would recommend ubuntu, if you're new to linux slackware isnt the best place to start .. in my opinion.