docmur
Feb 22 2007, 08:52 AM
So I'm trying slackware and I download 11.0 It's installed and boot and all that good stuff but I can't get networking working. The network is at a college rez and is assigned via DHCP. I can lspci and see my network card but when I run dhclient and dhcpcd nothing happens. Even if config does not list the eth* as there. When I try dhclient eth0, it returns an error yet the card is being picked up. ????
I'm lost I came from ubuntu and before that Suse I've never had this happen before and the slackware doc's don't help. I'm thinking it's a kernel problem but what do you guys think.
Thanks Docmur
Robert83
Feb 23 2007, 03:15 AM
Hi,
if lspci lists your ethernet card, and there is a entry in /etc/modules.conf about the ethernet card.
then perhaps try and see if
/etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-eth0 read something like this
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
ONBOOT=Yes
TYPE=Ethernet
DHCP_HOSTNAME=mycomputer
Sincerely
Robert B
michaelk
Feb 25 2007, 07:18 PM
In addition,
Look at the output of the commands lspci and lsmod. This will show the ethernet adapter and if its module is being loaded.
matt
Apr 17 2007, 09:04 PM
May be a really non technical answer. But as a slackware user myself I find that if you run netconfig utility and go through the setup their, setting your hostname and etc, then dhcp usually works afterwords.
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