Unable to connect to the internet

[raven]

Hi everyone,

I can't seem to find the answer to this, so I decided to make a thread about this.

I'm running Windows XP Home Edition w/ SP1 installed, and all the updates available are installed also. I got Knoppix v3.2 (I downloaded it about 1 year ago, and haven't updated since for some reasons). What I did was reboot from the CD, which went fine. Then I opened up the browser, and it wouldn't connect. So I ran "Kommand", and typed in lspci, and got a list of some stuff on my computer. One was my ethernet card (nVidia...dunno what else it said about it though). So then I ran ifconfig eth0, which returned a "no device found" error. Then I tried pump, but I have to be admin to run it (forgot howto do this), and then restarting the network also failed.

More info: I have an external cabel/dsl box, which is ethernet. I get my IP from DHCP, and my IP isn't static.

So, basically, what I'm asking is does anyone know how to fix this?

[j.drake]

1. Let me start by saying that I have no clue on Earth, BUT

2. I'd be really curious to see if a newer version of Knoppix would help. Like you, I started with 3.2 and put it aside, and it is amazing to me how many more drivers and apps that 3.4 has.

3. In a console, 'su' makes you root; 'sudo' makes you root for the particular command.

4. I'm running ADSL right now with DHCP on v3.4 - no configuration needed.

JD

[raven]

1. Let me start by saying that I have no clue on Earth, BUT

2. I'd be really curious to see if a newer version of Knoppix would help. Like you, I started with 3.2 and put it aside, and it is amazing to me how many more drivers and apps that 3.4 has.

3. In a console, 'su' makes you root; 'sudo' makes you root for the particular command.

4. I'm running ADSL right now with DHCP on v3.4 - no configuration needed.

JD

I downloaded 3.4, and booted it up. It detects it when I run ifconfig eth0, but it still won't connect.

[mzilikazi]

Well Knoppix 3.4 does support onboard nvidia ethernet just fine. When you do ifconfig do you see eth0? Does it have an i.p. address? It would look like so:

$ sudo ifconfig     
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:2A:B4:A2:76  
          inet addr:192.168.1.101  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:284169 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:394896 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:10608 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:65534498 (62.4 MiB)  TX bytes:442301128 (421.8 MiB)
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0x9f00 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:59151 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:59151 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:4791260 (4.5 MiB)  TX bytes:4791260 (4.5 MiB)

You can always try /etc/init.d/networking restart or pump then see if you get an i.p. address. If you do get an i.p. can you ping inside the LAN? Out?

[Wimmel]

I have the same problem with 3.4. (lrdy made a new topic for this one, but maybe this wil shed some light here too, because i found out that DHCP-broadcast failed).

I used Knoppix3.3 with no problems (on both my laptop and desktop), but with 3.4, DHCP-broadcast doesnt seem to work on my laptop (it does on my desktop however) because if I run ifconfig I only see the local loopback thingy.

Any suggestions?

* I'm using a Toshiba Satelite Pro 4600
* Im using the knoppix26 cheat-code because the normal kernel hangs at startup.

Wimmel, the linux N00B but sertainly a linux FAN!

P.S. Excuse my bad english!