Li Gwai Lo
11-07-2003, 09:11 AM
I am trying to use Knoppix 3.3 EN (dated 11-03) on my Asus P5A / K6-2/400 / 3Com 3C905B.
The network that I am on uses DHCP. Knoppix seems to set the ethernet address to be the address of the gateway -- I get x.x.0.1 as my machine's address, when I should be getting x.x.0.5 instead.
Running the "netcardsetup" script and rejecting DHCP -- giving it all of the same values that it should get from DHCP if its auto-config were working -- doesn't work either. I can't even ping my gateway.
I know the machine and ethernet card function (I'm currently running Win98 on the box in order to post this).
Does anyone know what the problem might be? As an aside, I have only managed to get one Linux distro to network properly with this machine, a Redhat 6.2 (or maybe 6.1) edition that was designated by Oracle as the officially-supported distro to work with their database. All of the other distros that I have tried have resulted in weeks of frustrating trial-and-error without ever getting a network connection to work, even though they seem to recognize everything fine. (Similarly, I tried replacing the card with an Intel card, whatever was supposedly Linus' favorite that month, and I couldn't get anything to work with it either!)
The network that I am on uses DHCP. Knoppix seems to set the ethernet address to be the address of the gateway -- I get x.x.0.1 as my machine's address, when I should be getting x.x.0.5 instead.
Running the "netcardsetup" script and rejecting DHCP -- giving it all of the same values that it should get from DHCP if its auto-config were working -- doesn't work either. I can't even ping my gateway.
I know the machine and ethernet card function (I'm currently running Win98 on the box in order to post this).
Does anyone know what the problem might be? As an aside, I have only managed to get one Linux distro to network properly with this machine, a Redhat 6.2 (or maybe 6.1) edition that was designated by Oracle as the officially-supported distro to work with their database. All of the other distros that I have tried have resulted in weeks of frustrating trial-and-error without ever getting a network connection to work, even though they seem to recognize everything fine. (Similarly, I tried replacing the card with an Intel card, whatever was supposedly Linus' favorite that month, and I couldn't get anything to work with it either!)