help needed to conect to internet

[Alex Snow]

Hi.  In netconfig it should have asked you if you wanted to probe for an
ethernet card, and came back with the driver your card uses.  You should
cat /proc/interrupts and see if it says anything about your c card there

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On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Alexandre Alves Tôco wrote:

>     Hi all! I am new to Linux so I got zipspeak that installs slackware and
> speakup. Well, now I am trying to use netconfig.
> I am connected to internet through a speedy so I got my ip address and the
> ip address of the gateway in the network properties in windows. I put this
> information with netconfig but as I try to ping I receive the message
> network unreachable. This happens even if I ping my own ip. So I guessed
> linux didn't recognize my net card.
> Am I correct?
> How can I know if Linux got my net card correctly?
> Am I doing some thing wrong?
>     Thanks, Alexandre.
>
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