Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[greengeek]

Using puppy Cielo based on Wary 5 it would connect to the internet once, but after the second boot it would not connect any more.

It seems that the first dhcp request from Cielo worked successfully but then caused the router to go into a state where it would refuse to issue any other new dhcp leases. This affected the second and subsequent boots of the Cielo puppy pc but also prevented any other PC (including a Windows XP netbook) from being able to request a dhcp connection.

This could only be resolved by turning the router off/on and waiting for the ADSL to re-establish. Then rebooting the Cielo PC. Very annoying and time consuming.

Barry K refers to dhcpcd problems having crept back into Wary in this blog comment:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02352

He mentions the dhcpcd pet and this did resolve the problem for me on Cielo Wary 5 in an installed environment (but the problem will still remain in a live cd obviously).

Note that the pet file name is misspelt though. The actual pet is available here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/dhcpcd-5.2.12-1-w5.pet

I think some routers are very susceptible to the faulty dhcpcd code and I suspect this is responsible for internet connection failures with many other previous puppy versions, particularly in a Live CD environment where you cannot change the dhcpcd code that is written on the CD.

[Colonel Panic]

Interesting. I'm giving Cielo a spin now and I'll let you know if this happens when I log out and reboot into a different (or the same) distro.

Certainly a cool project though. It looks good and comes with a big selection of apps including Open Office, Opera and Seamonkey.

[Colonel Panic]

Looks OK to me so far, no problems with Internet connection at all either when booting up in a different distro after using Cielo or when returning to it.