Does Puppy allow manual internet connection (wired) setup?
Posted: Fri 12 Oct 2012, 02:27
Continuing setup Puppy 2.14X on my ThinkPad 560E. The vintage machine doesn't have network card so I use Xircom pcmcia network adapter. Win98 and W2K establish connection out of box (if correct driver is in the box )
The cat5 cable comes from ADSL modem/router with wireless. Whatever I connect the cable to it gets connected regardless particular OS
However Puppy says "it's not always easy..." and indeed I couldn't connect to the Internet with my vintage machine. The setup says everything is fine, the driver (xircom pcmcia) smells correctly but Dillo says: "...cannot solve www.google.com". When I'm trying to logon to the modem/router Dillo says:"Network is unreachable". Obviously I cannot ping any site. But wizard says...and icons blinks reflected in my eyes hungry for internet connection...
Internet wizard shows:
ifconfig output:
resolv.conf (was empty, I added the data):
resolv.conf.tail (I created)
The driver - xirc2ps_cs indeed supports my card, just checked.
What could be wrong? Maybe possible to setup somehow everything manually?
The cat5 cable comes from ADSL modem/router with wireless. Whatever I connect the cable to it gets connected regardless particular OS
However Puppy says "it's not always easy..." and indeed I couldn't connect to the Internet with my vintage machine. The setup says everything is fine, the driver (xircom pcmcia) smells correctly but Dillo says: "...cannot solve www.google.com". When I'm trying to logon to the modem/router Dillo says:"Network is unreachable". Obviously I cannot ping any site. But wizard says...and icons blinks reflected in my eyes hungry for internet connection...
Internet wizard shows:
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inet addr: 169.254.74.40
bcast: 169.254.255.255
Mask: 255.255.0.0
no modem detected
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eth0 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr xx:yy:zz...
inet addr: 169.254.74.40 Bcast: 169.254.255.255 Mask: 255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 [b]carrier:0[/b]
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0B) TX bytes:0 (0.0B)
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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0B) TX bytes:0 (0.0B)
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nameserver 169.254.74.40
nameserver 169.254.255.255
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nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
nameserver 63.226.12.96
nameserver 73.3.208.251
What could be wrong? Maybe possible to setup somehow everything manually?