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networking slackware as a client

What exactly is direcway with a dw4000? what exactly do you need to configure clients? What would you configure on Windows to get it to work? What version of slackware?

Direcway is the ISP, which is satellite internet, and a DW4000 is the modem type, which connects through a USB.

As far as configuring network clients, I'm lost. I can hook up a windows box and get it running on the network in 5 minutes, but that's with windows.. I'm trying to get slack on the network, and I'm running 9.1.
I think I would need to set the IP as 192.168.0.xx, but the domain things keeps getting me every time.. Just kind of lost, in general.

the domain name can be anything you want. make it floodsbox.net, it doesn't need to be a real dns name, its not important at all.

You can also try #atu on irc.freenode.net if you use irc, for help.

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Are you going through a USB hub, or using ICS on a Windows PC?
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Going through ICS on a WindowsXP Pro machine.

OK, so the USB cable from the DWay goes to the Windows PC, and then how does it connect to the PC running Slackware?
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Coax goes from dish to modem, usb from modem to XP machine. From there, I have a cat5 cable going from my NIC to a switch, and a cat5 cable from the switch to the slack machine. Should have said that in the first post, but I thought it may have been redundant.

Sorry if I'm asking a lot of questions, but I've never used DWay before. Does it (The modem) have a DHCP server? What IP did the windows machine get? Does ICS use staic or dynamic IP's? Is the Ethernet card detected in Slack? What happens when you type "ifconfig" from a terminal window in Slack?
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said by floods:

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(don't know what everyone whines about with linux installs, they're no worse than windows, and actually give you *more* options)seem to do much help

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I've installed Debian on another machine, and mandrake on one of mine before (but wasn't too fond of it, it did way too much for me).

The thing is, I've never been much on networking. I've always been a hardware person, but I guess it's time to learn some networking.. As far as the questions drjim asked, I'll have to look some of that up, becuase I don't know some of it..!

I've never used ICS before, so I don't know if it will automatically assign an IP to another machine on a network. If it does (it's running a DHCP server), then you would need a DHCP *client* program running on the Slackware box, so it could request an IP.
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Well, so far I've been trying to assign an IP to it while in netconfig. (That IP being 192.168.0.54) I would assume it doesn't need a DHCP client, since I assigned an IP to the windows machine that was on the network.

IIRC, the ICS stuff basically turns the Windows machine into a NATting firewall, DHCP server included. I'd start by setting up the Slack box as a DHCP client rather than trying to manually configure it, and see what happens.

Okay, that's what I was coming to understand after reading a lot of articles online. I'm trying to set up the client with DHCP now.. and it just timed out while waiting for a valid DHCP server response..

Is there anything specific I need to set the DHCP hostname to when I'm running netconfig?

PS. I ran ifconfig (this being after just now running netconfig) and here's what I get.. I was getting something else when I didn't have it set up as DHCP.

lo     Link encap:Local Loopback
       inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
       UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
       RX Packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
       TX Packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
       collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
       RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Yes, your Ethernet card is not configured. Did it show up in lspci after you did the modprobe natsemi?
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modprobe natsemi came back with some errors.. this may take a minute to type up so here goes

     /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/natsemi.o.gz: init_module: No such device
     /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/natsemi.o.gz: Hint: ismod errors can be caused
 * by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
          You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
     /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/natsemi.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22/kerne
 *l/drivers/net/natsemi.o.gz failed
     /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/natsemi.o.gz: insmod natsemi failed

(*) WARNING 2 long line(s) split

00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10MBit (rev 40)

if I run ifconfig -a I do get eth0 listed, just found that. Does that change anything

Look like it's not loading the module. Is this a plug-in card, or one integrated to the motherboard?
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This is a card plugged in a PCI slot.