HELP!!! I CAN'T CONNECT TO THE INTERNET!

**Harry Kuhman** · 03-31-2005, 01:51 AM

Those fighting this problem (as I did) may want to look at these old threads and see if any of this seems to apply to them too:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...er=asc&start=0
and
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...er=asc&start=0

**tdjokic** · 03-31-2005, 02:18 AM

This is from my lilo.conf:

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11
label="Linux(2.6)-1"
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.11
append="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=de apm=noapm nomce quiet screen=800x600 vsync=60 lang=us acpi=off"
read-only

I must have acpi=off for my integrated NIC to work. Knoppix is 3.8.

**crazyj23** · 03-31-2005, 06:22 AM

hmmm...interesting...I'll try what's mentioned in those links...it's interesting you mention the acpi=off switch, my bios has acpi disabled as that was the only stable way I could get my w2k system to run games because of IRQ conflicts that would cause BSoD with sound/video conflicts, would I still need the switch if it's disabled in the bios? and would the noscsi switch as mentioned in the other thread affect my pci SATA controller? but thanks for the help so far

**Harry Kuhman** · 03-31-2005, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by crazyj23

....it's interesting you mention the acpi=off switch, my bios has acpi disabled.... and would the noscsi switch as mentioned in the other thread affect my pci SATA controller? ...

It's interesting that you focus on these two switches. My notebook originally worked with Knoppix and it's network connection just fine. Stopped after a "security update", even with the very same Live CD. I came up with a few work-arounds, mainly resetting the card with mii-tool and then doing another netcardconfig. But around version 3.4 of Knoppix my system stopped booting completely (Knoppix got more agressive in it's startup code, defaulting to things like dma on). I finally found that I needed to use two cheat codes to get my system to boot, acpi=off and noscsi together. Although this seemed to have nothing to do with the network, I found that the nic would work when I used these two codes. As to how these affect your computer, I have no idea and could only guess. The best thing to do would be to try and see.

**crazyj23** · 03-31-2005, 09:03 AM

well, what do you know...initially after a simple reboot from w2k the commands didn't work, but tried a power down, disconnect the cable modem, router and disconnected the port i was connected to, went and brushed my teeth, came back hooked everything back up, powered up, loaded knoppix with the noscsi acpi=off and I'm now typing this from knoppix

...now I need to figure out what I do and don't need to do along the way for this to all work right, hopefully it can just reset with a PC shutdown, otherwise it could be a pain...we'll see...as a side note, everytime I'd go from knoppix to w2k I'd have to reboot an additional time or two to get w2k to re-initialize the NIC to connect, I guess it was just my luck to have a NIC with a screwy chipset

...then after that getting it to recognize my usb zip 250 properly

**crazyj23** · 04-01-2005, 04:24 AM

well, I've gotten it down to a simple power down and start up knoppix with the noscsi and acpi=off switches...is there anyway to eliminate them when I'm using a permanent home on my 2nd HD, or do they have to be initiated before HW detection?