Quote Originally Posted by DaXiuyi
Am trying to get my Knoppix 5.0.1 to work, and it's doing great apart from 2 things:
1. Printers. I have a Samsung ML-1710 and when I try and configure it using the Configure Printers utility, I keep getting told that the driver doesn't exist. An earlier post suggested trying to configure it as a similar printer for which drivers exist (e.g. Samsung ML-1210), and I tried that, except it doesn't seem to work for any similar printers
Printers are fubar'd in 5.02 as per Klaus from the debian-knoppix list. Its a permissions issue. I had to go back to 4.02 due that issue alone as if I can't print I can't work.

Quote Originally Posted by DaXiuyi
2. Net connection. Konqueror seems to work fine, but Firefox just times out. I tried to use the network card configuration utility, but got a bit confused by the terms it asked for. Here's what I know from my Network connection settings in Windows XP: Address (assigned by DHCP), IP (xxx.xxx.1.2), Subnet (255.255.255.0) and Gateway (xxx.xxx.1.1). How do I get Knoppix to reflect this? I also tried to use the ADSL configuration utility, and I jst get timeouts all the time :S
Did you try to let it set things via DHCP and it failed when you ran the netcard config script ?

If not, then let it try to set things via the script and via DHCP. DHCP will answer all the questions for the script automatically. Some routers can be incompatible with DHCP on Knoppix and then you will need to run it manually.

If you run ipconfig /all from a command prompt on a winvirus box and write the output down the important items:

IP Address = same in the script
Netmask = should ALWAYS bee 255.255.255.0 (Would only change in very specific instances, not likely in a home net)
Default Gateway = your ROUTER's IP, which in the winworld is normaly 192.168.0.1, or 192.168.1.1 NOT 192.168.1.254 like *nix
Name Server = DNS Servers You can either use the ones provided from the ISP, or use your router for the DNS/Nameserver. Most modern soho type rotuers will act as a DNS proxy and forward on your request to the WAN side.

Give the DHCP option a try and then post back.