help needed to conect to internet

[Gregory Nowak]

I use slackware 8.1 with isc dhcp, and netconfig had no problems setting it up.

Greg


On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:11:13PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003,  wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I believe this is the case. My net card is a PCI/Fast ethernet dec 21143
> > and If I found correct information in internet, it is not supported by
> > Linux.
> > I heard about a package called tulip but I don't have the skills to do the
> > system modifications yet. I am very new to Linux and I couldn't understand
> > yet how things work.
> >     Alexandre
> 
> 
> hi, what distrobution of linux are you using, because afaik, tulip is 
> infact supported by the kernel and has been so for some time.
> since kernel 2.2x as far as I can remember.
> if you're running slackware, or zipspeak with is just a stripped down 
> version of slackware, the netconfig utility should ask if you want to 
> probe for yer ethernet card.
> although I seem to remember slackware having a problem with dhcp. I don't 
> know if this is rectified yet as I haven't tried ever to configure dhcp on 
> slackware since I found assigning a static ip address to be sufficent for 
> my needs.
> hth
> and for us to be more helpfull, we need as much info as you can give us. 
> but, that will come with time and many reminders.
> hth.
> 
> 
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