[LUGSB] Slackware 9.1 Network problem...

[TCasp77 at cs.com]

Maybe someone can help me here.  Apparently, no one in the forums knows what 
is wrong, because I am not really getting a response from LinuxISO or 
LinuxQuestions.org.  Here is what I posted at LinuxQuestions.org:

OK, I think I am close, but I am not sure what the final ingredient is: 

I just installed Slack 9.1, and I am trying to configure my network. I have 
an HP Pavillion Laptop, with a National Semiconductor card, connectied to a 
router to a cable modem. Slack recognizes my card at boot, reading, eth0: link 
up. When I run lsmod, the card is on there, and when I run ifconfig eth0 up, it 
lists my eth0 setup BUT, it doesn't appear to be assigning me an ip address. 
Here is the output of ifconfig eth0: 

Code: 
LinK encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:9D:C9:94:0E 
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU: 1500 Metric: 1 
RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
collision:0 txqueuelen:100 
RX bytes:1017 (1017.0 b) TX bytes:8260 (8.0 Kb) 
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000 


I have tried to run netconfig and dhcpcd, but it hasn't helped. In fact,  it 
erases my nameservers, in resolv.conf, and when I run ifconfig eth0 up, my 
eth0 gets displayed, but then if I run dhcpcd eth0, afterwards, ifconfig then 
displays only LO again. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot!! Also, when I boot, it 
brings up the eth0 interface and says link up:   Timed out while waiting for a 
valid DHCP server response.  Remaining active for wake-on LAN.

I have probably tried just about everything I can think of for this, but yet 
nothing.  I have gotten it connected before to install Gentoo, but then, a few 
days later when I attempted to re-install Gentoo, the network didn't work 
anymore, but I haven't changed anything.  I am at a loss here.  Thanks.

Tom
     
    
    

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