Thanx 4 the reply and the info. Yeah, when the knoppix cd is not in the drive and it boots normally into Windows ME (ugh), it has no problem getting on the net. It's only when we boot it off the knoppix cd that we can't get access. I tried obvious url's like www.microsoft.com etc and no luck. If the trouble was in the windows platform I'd know what to do, but I'm still really green when it comes to linux. I didn't try a ping or anything, because it was my impression that it was just not going to work as the connection failure I suspected was in the recognizing the adsl modem and I didn't know where to start with trouble shooting it. I probably won't be able to get any more work done on this, as they live out of town, and therefore it becomes too cumbersome to try to solve it, but If I had some ideas as to where to look for the next time I was out there, that would help.
Thanx for the response, and Happy New Year to all.
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Chris Wallace wrote:
Hi Dave,
The only real proviso with Telus is that you have to "register" the MAC
of the connecting machine with their silly little service (you receive a
private class A address until this is completed.
Of course, I'm assuming that this was previously done in windows from
the sounds of it, so that would leave basic IP troubleshooting...i.e.
can you obtain a public IP addy from DHCP? Can you ping the gateway? Can you ping a known internet host by IP or FQDN?, etc.
I've got Telus DSL service and have had no probs with getting on-line
with Knoppix, so it's not the distro ;-)
Best of luck with it.
Regards,
Chris
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