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Special Forums IP Networking Unable to connect to internet on slackware 14.1 (hathway connection) Post 302897437 by pinakbheed on Monday 14th of April 2014 07:02:04 AM
Old 04-14-2014
Unable to connect to internet on slackware 14.1 (hathway connection)
Hi,

I have a wired internet connection of hathway provider. I would like to use the connection on my desktop as well as my laptop. My desktop pc has windows 7 and yesterday I installed slackware 14.1 (full installation) on my lenovo 3000 n100 laptop.

Previously I had slacko puppy 5.7 installed on my laptop and I was able to use internet on it. Please note that hathway router has saved the MAC address of my desktop. Hence, I had to change the MAC address of laptop (when puppy linux was installed) to match my desktop's MAC address for making the internet connection work on laptop.

Now I have slackware 14.1 installed and have followed the documentation provided to setup my network, without success. After going through netconfig, I have edited /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and made the following changes:

Code:
# Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[0]=""
NETMASK[0]=""
USE_DHCP[0]="yes"
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""
HWADDR[0]="00:01:23:45:67:89"

where HWADDR[0] matches my desktop's MAC address.

After this edit, I ran /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 eth0_start to make connection. This too seems to succeed. It finds and IPv4 address and the child process goes to background.

But when I open firefox and try connecting to google.com, it fails. I have also checked ifconfig output to find that eth0 does take the MAC address specified in HWADDR[0].

I have also tried using networkmanager shipped with slackware (from XFCE dekstop) without success.

What could be the problem? Thanks in advance
 

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NAME

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