help needed to conect to internet

[Steve Holmes]

You might also try doing a 
"ifconfig" (without the quotes)
and see what is displayed.  It sounds like it did not find your
network card which should most likely be eth0.

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 03:57:13PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> 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
> 
> --
> A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!"
> 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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> >
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