Cannot Connect to Internet! 4.3.1 (Solved)
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I am having exactly the same problem. I am having to write this post in Debian Linux. I cannot connect to the internet from the LiveCD version of Puppy 4.3.1.2
I have Debian, OpenSuse, Arch installed on my computer's hard drives and Slax on a pen drive. They all found an internet connection without any problem, no configuring was needed. I have a wired connection to an ADSL modem/router.
Puppy is telling me that it has found an eth0 connection and that DHCP, which is what all my other Linuxes use, is configured correctly. Yet when I open Seamonkey, it cannot connect to any page. I have followed all the instructions given in the manuals contained in the LiveCD, but no joy. It is frustrating. I would like to be able to use Puppy, but I cannot without an internet connection.
Any help would be appreciated.
I have Debian, OpenSuse, Arch installed on my computer's hard drives and Slax on a pen drive. They all found an internet connection without any problem, no configuring was needed. I have a wired connection to an ADSL modem/router.
Puppy is telling me that it has found an eth0 connection and that DHCP, which is what all my other Linuxes use, is configured correctly. Yet when I open Seamonkey, it cannot connect to any page. I have followed all the instructions given in the manuals contained in the LiveCD, but no joy. It is frustrating. I would like to be able to use Puppy, but I cannot without an internet connection.
Any help would be appreciated.
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I have now solved this problem. The problem was that /etc/resolv.conf was a symbolic link, which pointed to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf which was a symbolic link which pointed to itself.
I renamed /etc/resolv.conf -
# mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.old
Using Geany, I created a new resolv.conf file with the line -
nameserver 192.168.0.1
This file was saved as /etc/resolv.conf
Restarting Seamonkey, internet connection was established. Hope that helps yeahman.
I renamed /etc/resolv.conf -
# mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.old
Using Geany, I created a new resolv.conf file with the line -
nameserver 192.168.0.1
This file was saved as /etc/resolv.conf
Restarting Seamonkey, internet connection was established. Hope that helps yeahman.
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I have now solved this problem. The problem was that /etc/resolv.conf was a symbolic link, which pointed to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf which was a symbolic link which pointed to itself.
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Glad for you.
For the benefit of fellow posters could you edit the subject of your initial post and add [SOLVED] to it.
But one word tho.
If you would have had your login details, you could have made your connection directly with the roaring penguin in the menu.
In this way, the dns server would have been assigned and stored in /etc/resolv.conf right away and you wouldn't have run into this issue.
For the benefit of fellow posters could you edit the subject of your initial post and add [SOLVED] to it.
But one word tho.
If you would have had your login details, you could have made your connection directly with the roaring penguin in the menu.
In this way, the dns server would have been assigned and stored in /etc/resolv.conf right away and you wouldn't have run into this issue.
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Beem, I don't think it is true that in my case the Roaring Penguin utility would have worked correctly. This is because it works with the PPPoE protocol, whereas my ISP requires the PPPoA protocol. Roaring Penguin is not designed to work with that, indeed, with PPPoA the configuration has to be done on the modem itself, using a browser - I set it up in Debian using Firefox. As I am using Linux exclusively, I had to phone my ISP and enter all the settings manually, because the ISP only produces a configuration disk for Windows users.
If I look at Roaring Penguin and click the network status button, it tells me that - pppoe status: Link is down (can't read pppoe PID file /var/run/pppoe.conf-pppoe.pid.pppoe) Yet the connection works when the NAMESERVER value is set in /etc/resolv.conf
The point is that once PPPoA is set, subsequent OSs should find an internet connection automatically, and this was done by the Linuxes I added later - OpenSuse, Arch and Slax. Only Puppy did not automatically detect the internet connection. Perhaps yeahman could confirm that his ISP also requires the PPPoA protocol.
Although the PPPoE protocol is more common, shouldn't Puppy accommodate PPPoA users as well?
If I look at Roaring Penguin and click the network status button, it tells me that - pppoe status: Link is down (can't read pppoe PID file /var/run/pppoe.conf-pppoe.pid.pppoe) Yet the connection works when the NAMESERVER value is set in /etc/resolv.conf
The point is that once PPPoA is set, subsequent OSs should find an internet connection automatically, and this was done by the Linuxes I added later - OpenSuse, Arch and Slax. Only Puppy did not automatically detect the internet connection. Perhaps yeahman could confirm that his ISP also requires the PPPoA protocol.
Although the PPPoE protocol is more common, shouldn't Puppy accommodate PPPoA users as well?
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Hi,Roaring Silence wrote:Beem, I don't think it is true that in my case the Roaring Penguin utility would have worked correctly. This is because it works with the PPPoE protocol, whereas my ISP requires the PPPoA protocol. Roaring Penguin is not designed to work with that, indeed, with PPPoA the configuration has to be done on the modem itself, using a browser - I set it up in Debian using Firefox. As I am using Linux exclusively, I had to phone my ISP and enter all the settings manually, because the ISP only produces a configuration disk for Windows users.
If I look at Roaring Penguin and click the network status button, it tells me that - pppoe status: Link is down (can't read pppoe PID file /var/run/pppoe.conf-pppoe.pid.pppoe) Yet the connection works when the NAMESERVER value is set in /etc/resolv.conf
The point is that once PPPoA is set, subsequent OSs should find an internet connection automatically, and this was done by the Linuxes I added later - OpenSuse, Arch and Slax. Only Puppy did not automatically detect the internet connection. Perhaps yeahman could confirm that his ISP also requires the PPPoA protocol.
Although the PPPoE protocol is more common, shouldn't Puppy accommodate PPPoA users as well?
As you spoke yourself about a PPPoE username, I supposed you had a PPPoE connection.
You should have mentioned in your initial post PPPoA.
Several years ago I had such a modem albeit on a telephone line.
Indeed I had to enter through a browser the login info etc.
I can't quite well remember, but I think I could use PPPoE as well as PPPoA.
I used PPPoE I think.
The moddem connects as soon as powered on to the ISP
And indeed if the eth device got an IP, one could connect to the internet directly.
In Windows I used a connection program, I think needed to get the wlan IP and dns information.
I would suggest to PM Barry Kauler to point to this problem, as from time to time this problem pops up.
If you don't feel up to doing this, I can do it.
Please let me know.
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I'm having the same problem the OP had, i'm a OpenSuse linux user ( new user ) , but I have vista ( sigh ) on my laptop, I'm running the puppy linux live cd at the moment, the wireless connection is successful but the net browsers won't work.Roaring Silence wrote:I have now solved this problem. The problem was that /etc/resolv.conf was a symbolic link, which pointed to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf which was a symbolic link which pointed to itself.
I renamed /etc/resolv.conf -
# mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.old
Using Geany, I created a new resolv.conf file with the line -
nameserver 192.168.0.1
This file was saved as /etc/resolv.conf
Restarting Seamonkey, internet connection was established. Hope that helps yeahman.
Can someone explain what I quoted,in simple steps, i'm a total noob to these things, would love to browse the net in puppy.
EDIT : I found the /etc/resolv.conf file, did you rename it .. # mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.old , ? , or /etc/resolv.conf.old , damn im confused LOL
Also for nameserver 192.168.0.1 <-- is that number specific to you or do I type in the same numbers?
Would be very much appreciated if someone could clear this up, won't be installing puppy until I know I can browse the net on it... I don't understand why it says " connected successful! ", then the net browsers don't work. ugh