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 T?co 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >