Hello,

I am a TOTAL newbie to Knoppix. I have this old computer that I installed Knoppix on. Went very well considering I had 64 Megs of RAM on that 266Mhz computer.
My only problem is that there is no internet.

I have installed a DLINK 10/100 Mbps Ethernet PCI card. It comes with a cd that has drivers for redhat (ONLY) and nothing else for linux. It does have drivers for like xp and stuff.

on running the DSL/PPoE and ADSL/PPoE thing it said no ethernet card dettected.

These are the instructions for RedHat on the D-Link CD:

" The procedure to activate DFE-538TX on Red Hat 6.X linux is as follows:

step 1: copy the driver rtl8139.c from driver diskette to you linux.


step 2: compile:
The instruction for compiling the driver is include at the end of
the driver file. (run this instruction at /usr/src/linux)
Or you can use the Makefile included in the driver diskette \Linux.

step 3: insert the driver as module:
insmod rtl8139.o
(run 'lsmod' to see if the module is inserted)

step 4: bind your card to an IP address

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
netmask ${NETMASK}
(run 'netstat -i' to see if there is a interface 'eth0')

step 5: add your card to IP routing table, then add gateway also your card:
/sbin/route add -net ${NETWORK} netmask ${NETMASK} eth0
(should be able to ping local network now)
gateway:
/sbin/route add default gw ${GATEWAY} netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1

step 6: start inet deamon.
/usr/sbin/inetd
(you are on the network now)

*make sure that your kernel is built with network, fast_ethernet and module
support. Otherwise, you have to rebuild your kernel.
(1:go to /usr/src/linux directory
2:run 'make menuconfig' or 'make config'
3:mark the options list above.
4:exit and rebuild your kernel.
make dep;make clean;make zImage
the file 'zImage' will be at /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage
5:modify /etc/lilo.conf.(this file specify where kernel image is)
6:run 'lilo' )

You can run 'netconfig' which will do step 4,5,6 for you.
Then just add a line at the beginning of '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network'.
'insmod /your driver path/rtl8139.o'

then your driver will work every time you boot."

My question is this. Can I use the same instructions for knoppix as well or Red Hat is Red Hat only.
Also if I used the .sys and .inf files under the WinXP folder on the CD and used ndiswrapper would that be a bad thing to do.

Any help/commands/suggestions are more than welcome.

I thank anyone who is read this post.
Awaiting any replies.

Thanks a lot again