A. Jorge Garcia
10-12-2003, 01:00 AM
OK, I've never had a problem with networking when using KNOPPIX. Now I'm trying to resurect an old Gateway G6/266 for my kids to surf the web and get them off my new Dell....
Anyway, I upgraded the cdrom drive to a bootable one that can read cdrs (old drive couldn't) and I also upgraded the RAM by adding 128MB (now a total 159MB). All this seems to work fine, the KNOPPIX 2003.0924 CD boots fine, etc.
Now I figure the easy part is to pop in an old ethernet card I had lying around and put this beast on my router. On the boot screen KNOPPIX reports finding eth0 and running DHCP in the background. But when I go to use KONQUEROR, I can surf nowhere! I issued ifconfig from the shell and got only the "lo" configuration info, no internet.
My question: like a cheap internal winmodem that won't work in linux, is this ethernet card also a cheap win version? Is there such a thing? Or, has anyone had success with this PCI card (SohoWare Auto 10/100 Ethernet PCI card model# SFA110A) and I'm just missing something - please let me know!
BTW, I notice that on all the machines I use ethernet cards, they came built-in and are of the 3COM variety - should I get one of those? I figured I'd use this card as cablevision left it here when they wanted me to install my own cable modem (I didn't need the card as my Dell had one already...). In fact I have 2 of these cards as my folks didn't need it either. I kept the cards lying around thinking I could use some day. Maybe not?
TIA,
Anyway, I upgraded the cdrom drive to a bootable one that can read cdrs (old drive couldn't) and I also upgraded the RAM by adding 128MB (now a total 159MB). All this seems to work fine, the KNOPPIX 2003.0924 CD boots fine, etc.
Now I figure the easy part is to pop in an old ethernet card I had lying around and put this beast on my router. On the boot screen KNOPPIX reports finding eth0 and running DHCP in the background. But when I go to use KONQUEROR, I can surf nowhere! I issued ifconfig from the shell and got only the "lo" configuration info, no internet.
My question: like a cheap internal winmodem that won't work in linux, is this ethernet card also a cheap win version? Is there such a thing? Or, has anyone had success with this PCI card (SohoWare Auto 10/100 Ethernet PCI card model# SFA110A) and I'm just missing something - please let me know!
BTW, I notice that on all the machines I use ethernet cards, they came built-in and are of the 3COM variety - should I get one of those? I figured I'd use this card as cablevision left it here when they wanted me to install my own cable modem (I didn't need the card as my Dell had one already...). In fact I have 2 of these cards as my folks didn't need it either. I kept the cards lying around thinking I could use some day. Maybe not?
TIA,