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[Dgertis]

Hello,

I am using Puppy Linux 5.1.1 and am having no luck in connecting to my ISP via internet. I am also having trouble with wireless, but will save that for another day. When I pull up the network wizards, I can see my Atheros hardware under eth0. When I try and test it, it shows there is a live network; however, auto dhcp doesn't connect --> keeps saying it was expecting a different xid. I tried manually entering the data into the static IP section but no luck. As far as the hardware goes the two LEDs light up when connected and seem to work.

I am now to linux, so it is difficult for me to know how to troubleshoot this -- any help would be appreciated. Let me know what info you need and what commands/tools I need to use to obtain it and I will do my best to get it.

Dave

[tempestuous]

It's very suspicious that both your ethernet AND wifi devices fail.
This sounds like a low-level issue (kernel/resources) ...
... and sure enough, the ACPI issue reported here sounds like it's your problem -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/407824

Their solution is to boot with the "pci=use_crs" kernel parameter.
Open /boot/grub/menu.lst in Geany. Find the first line that starts with "kernel", it will look something like "kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ..."
and to the end of that line add a space, then "pci=use_crs" without the quotation marks.
Save. Reboot.
If this still fails, you could try "acpi=off" instead, but this is quite severe.

[tempestuous]

So after a week has passed, does the boot parameter work?

This is quite specialised information, and could be valuable to anyone else with an Acer 6930.