Internet connection problem

[Carlwatkins]

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO ONE HAS ANSWERD MY QUESTION!!!!!!!! PLEASE HELP!!! OK ok I'll say it (I AM A NOOBY!!) so help me!!! I have a pci Network adapter. I've tried "netconfig" well I ran it that is, and I think I got it setup right. However my "ifconfig" file did NOT have the first part with the "eth0" part it just had the "lo" part. My computer connects to a router and the router is conected to a DSL modem, however Slackware will not see any thing on the network. And heres what "lspci" said about my card "00:14.0 3Com Corporation 3c905C - TX/TX-M [Tornado] ( rev 78 ) " I think it's not seeing my network card right but I don't know what I'm doing so, if you could help me that would be great.

C@RL

I know I already posted I message alot like this for helping some one else, but I decided to just have them install "Kubuntu", I picked it back up again "the thread that is" but no one replied, so I started this one.

[madscientist267]

dunno for sure, but things like netcardconfig come to mind... it sounds like for whatever reason its not seeing your card properly

[Carlwatkins]

I can't get on the internet and it and it doesn't see the network, so I need some help making it see and use the card.

C@RL

[Carlwatkins]

PLEASE HELP ME OUT HERE I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I REALY NEED SOME ONE TO TELL ME HOW TO DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks in advance
C@RL

[jweekley1]

post the ouput from ifconfig -a and netstat -rn.

[Carlwatkins]

this is the output of "ifconfig -a"

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 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

this is the output of "netstat -rn"

Kernel IP routing table
Destination || Gateway|| Genmask || Flags || MSS Window || irtt Iface
127.0.0.0 ||| 0.0.0.0 ||| 255.0.0.0 || U ||||||||| 0 0 |||||||||| 0 lo

I add these "||" because this site does not let you put more than one space inbetween words.

[jweekley1]

I don't see anything for eth0.
here is what my looks like.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:4F:C2:35
inet addr:192.168.2.100 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::260:97ff:fe4f:c235/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:601806 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:983798 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:21 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:145935840 (139.1 MiB) TX bytes:1237996121 (1.1 GiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:147 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:147 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:30191 (29.4 KiB) TX bytes:30191 (29.4 KiB)

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

[Juan Pablo]

The 2.6 kernel has support for your card but I'm not sure about the 2.4.x kernel that Slack uses by default, try updating your kernel to 2.6.x, it will be much better

[Freston]

The 2.6 kernel has support for your card but I'm not sure about the 2.4.x kernel that Slack uses by default, try updating your kernel to 2.6.x, it will be much better

This is good advice, however I don't know if this advice matches the OP's skills. Carlwatkins, please make good backups before you upgrade your kernel.

[Carlwatkins]

In reply to jweekley1, thank you! I see that mine is not the same as yours which helps, but I need to know how to fix it, it sounds like I need to upgrade my kernel, but Freston is right I don't realy know how to do that. So if you people could tell me how thats done, it would be great. thanks

C@RL