Can I make Knoppix 5.01 skip network detection?

**McMick** · 07-01-2006, 09:54 AM

It won't boot if I don't. I don't want to skip detection of other stuff, if possible. Only network cards. TIA

**Harry Kuhman** · 07-01-2006, 02:30 PM

Do you really need to skip detection of the network interfaces, or just skip the DHCP network configuration? Will knoppix nodhcp solve your problem?

**McMick** · 07-02-2006, 05:12 AM

Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman

Do you really need to skip detection of the network interfaces, or just skip the DHCP network configuration? Will knoppix nodhcp solve your problem?

No, it didn't help. I didn't figure it was the problem anyhow, since it detects the onboard LAN as eth0 and it times out properly, but eth1 (the wireless) doesn't even get that far -- it seems to have a problem with the driver (see another post by CJWertz recently). It's a RALINK 2500 chipset and it doesn't appear to be supported, at least not properly. The drivers provided by RALINK are dated and apparently buggy. There is a project that is updating them and ironing out the bugs, but in either case it would appear that I have to compile them myself, and honestly I don't have the patience to compile drivers (I'd have to install another copy of linux for that somewhere, wouldn't I?) and figure out how to insert them into the ISO image, etc.