Hi Dave, Sometimes ADSL is done through PPPoE, which is similar to dial-up (but way faster).
If he's got to "connect" to the internet to use it (as opposed to "always on"), that's likely the case. In which case there's likely a PPPoE tool you can use. Never used Knoppix via PPPoE so I don't know off hand. Anyway hope that helps. Marcel On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 18:25, Dave Bourassa wrote: > Hi Chris, > > 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dave Bourassa at > http://members.shaw.ca/djb.enterprises/ > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > "There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who > understand binary and those who don't." > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
