Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

yeahman · Joined: 21 Mar 2010 Posts: 7

I have recently installed puppy 431 frugal on sda3. I have searched forums and threads galore. I cannot connect to the internet. Do I absolutely need my pppoe user name? If so why dont I need that info for other linux distros. I have ethernet and have clicked on the "connect" icon and then "Internet by network or wireless LAN..." and then "eth0"
My realtek hardware and driver info appears in the box (8139too) and then I push "Auto DHPC" and the window with the progress bar appears and then just before the window dissapears it says error in the progress bar. Then I get a window that says NETWORK CONFIGURATION OF eth0 SUCCESSFUL! but when I open SeaMonkey I get Address Not Found!
I really like puppy and want to use it but I am SO FRUSTRATED!!
I tried

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

Are you trying to connect wired or wireless?
eth0 would be wired.
If you have a wireless card and are trying to connect, it may be that it is not being recognized.
Naturally, if eth0 is not connected, you will not be able to connect with it.

So, more information is needed such as card type, connection, (hard wired eth0, or wireless, or telephone modem type card.
It all makes a difference.

yeahman · Joined: 21 Mar 2010 Posts: 7

I have a wired ethernet connection (eth0) and the correct driver is shown in the connection manager.

Béèm · Posted: Wed 24 Mar 2010, 17:55 Post subject:

You didn't show the output of ifconfig

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4349 Location: merriam, kansas

Maybe some help here:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=386602149&t=49581

yeahman · Joined: 21 Mar 2010 Posts: 7

ok i cant copy and paste from puppy (obviously) so I attatched a pic of ifconfig output

Béèm · Posted: Wed 24 Mar 2010, 18:56 Post subject:

I am a bit confused about your question of pppoe.
Do you have pppoe modem or a adsl modem/router.

yeahman · Joined: 21 Mar 2010 Posts: 7

sorry about any confusion. I dont know what ppoe is. I have a cable motem. I believe that is a DSL connection.

Béèm · Posted: Wed 24 Mar 2010, 19:33 Post subject:

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4349 Location: merriam, kansas

Béèm · Posted: Wed 24 Mar 2010, 19:59 Post subject:

I have the feeling he needs the roaring penguin or the like to make his connection.

yeahman · Joined: 21 Mar 2010 Posts: 7

OK its not easy to get ahold of my ISP (cable company) for my username and password (I have to do it online and have not been able to get anywhere) so what I want to know is if I can somehow connect without that information. Other distros that I have used connect me to eth0 Automatically (I Have A Wired Connection) I have never had to enter my ISP username or password unless I was using a wireless router wich I am not. Thank you for your help and patients.

Béèm · Posted: Wed 24 Mar 2010, 20:32 Post subject:

If you have a cable modem, at a certain moment you had to use the userid/password to establish the connection.

Did your cable modem arrive configured to make the connection when powered on?
Is there some led indication that you have a connection to the ISP when the cable modem is powered on?

jafadmin · Joined: 19 Mar 2009 Posts: 343

My experience with puppy is that it will automatically connect with an ethernet card. You shouldn't have to run the wizard. Try this:

1) Restart The X Server (Menu->Shutdown->Restart X server)
2) When X is rebooted open a Console window and
3) Type the "#cat /etc/resolv.conf" command again to see if it is getting DNS servers
4) see if you can ping 4.2.2.2

If it pings but you can't get to web sites your DHCP server isn't assigning a good DNS server.

Based upon the ip address in the ifconfig output you posted, I think you're getting DHCP from the router.

Try pinging 192.168.1.1 as well

Let us know what the results are.

Béèm · Posted: Wed 24 Mar 2010, 21:02 Post subject:

jafadmin,
If the cable modem isn't connected properly to the ISP, you can try what you want but there will be no connection. restartX won't help.
yeahman said also that in /etc/resolv.conf there is nothing else but Too many levels of symbolic links
So he didn't get dns addresses.
And thus the message in the browser.