On Sunday 04 July 2004 06:53 am, ec wrote:
> Why is it a crap shoot when trying to get an
> installation to see stuff, especially the internet?
>
> I just installed slak 10 twice and yes, it finds the
> eth0 card, but fails to set it up!!
>
> The following is a 'flappy' saved from knoppix and
> slaking slak!!
>
> Now, what do I do???? Probably simple, just don't know
> what/where/when/how!! (all those good adjectives per
> my high school english teacher...believe it or not,
> yes, I did graduate!!))
>
> knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ ifconfig
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
> 00:40:F4:8C:03:0D
>           inet addr:192.168.0.2  Bcast:192.168.0.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::240:f4ff:fe8c:30d/64
> Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500
> Metric:1
>           RX packets:546 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> frame:0
>           TX packets:568 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:417113 (407.3 KiB)  TX bytes:115658
> (112.9 KiB)
>           Interrupt:9 Base address:0xa000
>
> 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:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> frame:0
>           TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:400 (400.0 b)  TX bytes:400 (400.0
> b)
>
> >From Slak
>
> ifconfig
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
> 00:40:F4:8C:03:0D
>
> (not setting up the 'inet' ports, whatever here)
>
>
>
>
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:3752 (3.6 Kb)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>           Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1000

It looks to me like Slackware is not runing a DHCP client where Knoppix does.  
So, in slack you need to either setup the DHCP client to get the networking 
information or you need to define it statically in the network configuration 
files.

Alan
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