Help please?

[lilman]

I am installing Knoppix on a partition on my HD. I have a couple questions. I was wondering if someone can help me out as I go along. I installed it three times already and it hasn't worked yet.

[OErjan]

exactly what is not working? any erorrmessages? any symptoms?

[Harry Kuhman]

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16574

[lilman]

I installed knoppix and it didn't want to work. So I installed debian. With debian I can't go online..

[OErjan]

ah, ok, any sympotoms. the more you tell us the more we can help. with what we have we could go trough a book of advise and still miss your situation.
do you get an IP?
is it a wired or wireless card?
does linux see your card at bootup?
does sudo lspci list your card or something like it (open a console and type comands there then hit enter)
what does sudo ifconfig say?
what does sudo lsmod say?
you can redirect the output to a file on a floppy by mounting floppy type

mount /mnt/floppy

with floppy in drivenow you can get a textfile of the output by typing comand>/mnt/floppy/comand.txt
like this

sudo ifconfig>/mnt/floppy/ifconfig.txt

or

sudo lspci>/mnt/floppy/lspci.txt

now unmount the floppy

umount /mnt/floppy

no it is not misspelled, u m o.., no n as in unmount.
hmm it might be plaing /floppy not /mnt/floppy, I have no vanilla Debian box near just now to check...