Hi,

I am running 5.1.1 from LiveCD, and all is good. My machine is an old-ish IBM laptop, with an Intel combined ethernet and WLAN card. I am not epecting WLAN to work "out of the box", but am struggling even to get the ethernet connection to work. The card/cable/connection to the world is OK, as it works with WinXP.

On boot-up, I see something like:

Network device eth0 DHCP broadcasting for IP [backgrounded]
Network device eth1 DHCP broadcasting for IP [backgrounded]
Network device eth2 DHCP broadcasting for IP [backgrounded]

Not sure if this is normal, or what I should expect to see here.

Question: I assume one of eth0-2 is the ethernet connection, another is WLAN, but what is the third? Dial-up, maybe?

Anyway, with sudo netcardconfig, I tried to enable first eth0, then eth2 (the 2 that aren't WLAN, but which to choose, and why - so just guessing). No success.

I took the target IP address, subnet gate & gateway straight from the values shown by ipconfig \all in a DOS shell.

Question: netcardconfig asks for a broadcast address - what to use here? I used the value suggested by the tool, but truly no idea of the correct value.

>ipconfig \all gives me something like 00-0C-50-CF-0A-78

How do I map this to a broadcast address, or is it something different?

I thought (hah!) it was something like a bitwise OR on the target IP address, but I'm really not sure what to put here.

Bottom line: It doesn't work - no connection.

ifconfig -a shows:
. . .
Sending DHCP broadcast from device eth0 (or eth2) - operation failed.

Any suggestions on what I could try here?

Thanks v much/Pikelet