Dan Graham wrote:
Hi Dave,Thanx Dan and all the rest of you for the feedback. I'll forward the info to my son-in-law for his edification. I am leaning towards the problem being not recognizing the lan card or the adsl modem, so Dan's instructions are making me curious.
It sounds like it has not detected or setup the lan card properly. You could do a few things to help us determine the trouble.
1. Get into a Knoppix root concole by keying Ctrl-Alt-F3.
2. Enter the command ifconfig to see how eht0 "your Lan card" is configured. It should appear something like this:
[root@dan dan]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:7D:D8:0B:26
inet addr:192.168.1.11 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:33573 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:36358 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:23 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:34913172 (33.2 Mb) TX bytes:4820249 (4.5 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2586 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2586 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:138424 (135.1 Kb) TX bytes:138424 (135.1 Kb)
2. If eth0 does not appear in the lineup we'll have to run the command lsmod which will render something like this:
[root@dan dan]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
binfmt_misc 5696 1
parport_pc 21672 1 (autoclean)
lp 6720 0 (autoclean)
parport 23936 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
agpgart 31840 3 (autoclean)
NVdriver 1065920 10 (autoclean)
sr_mod 15096 0 (autoclean) (unused)
floppy 49340 0 (autoclean)
snd-seq-midi 3680 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-emu10k1-synth 4220 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-emux-synth 25532 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1-synth]
snd-seq-midi-emul 4880 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth]
snd-seq-virmidi 2888 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth]
snd-seq-oss 26176 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 3208 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 33264 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-pcm-oss 36932 0
snd-mixer-oss 9016 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-emu10k1 56592 0 [snd-emu10k1-synth]
snd-pcm 55808 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-util-mem 1280 0 [snd-emux-synth snd-emu10k1]
snd-rawmidi 12864 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device 3836 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1-synth snd-emux-synth snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 25508 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-hwdep 3840 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd 24804 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-util-mem snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-hwdep]
soundcore 3780 0 [snd]
nfsd 66576 8 (autoclean)
lockd 46480 1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 60188 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
af_packet 13000 1 (autoclean)
ip_vs 74328 0 (autoclean)
8139too 14472 1 (autoclean)
mii 1152 0 (autoclean) [8139too]
supermount 14340 3 (autoclean)
ext3 73736 3 (autoclean)
jbd 38608 3 (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-cd 28712 0
cdrom 26848 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi 8212 0
scsi_mod 90372 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused)
usbcore 58304 1 [usb-uhci]
rtc 6560 0 (autoclean)
reiserfs 169776 1
[root@dan dan]#
When you have completed this, please jot down the names of the modules and post this back to us on the board.
Thanx, Dan
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.
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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
If I get any further info back I'll post it.
Again, thanx for the tips and happy new year to y'all.
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