--- Alan Dayley <
alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
> 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
Great! How?
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