How to connect to the internet with Knoppix?

[Macro2]

I mananged to DL Knoppix and get it to run. Can't seem to get Mozilla to connect to the Internet. All I get is a site not found message when trying to get to a website.

It appears that when you load Knoppix via the CD-ROM boot it finds the appropriate drivers and for the most part it did a good job. Dunno if it found drivers for the onboard NIC of the Asus A7n8x-deluxe. Using the 3 com LAN port in Windows.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

ALso, with Knoppix can you access other files on the computer that were installed with Windows XP, like *.pdf's, *.jpg's etc?

At any rate, Knoppix seems a nice taste of Linux.

Mac

 

[Booty]

Well, run ifconfig in a terminal to see if it found your nic (which I'm assumig is what you're using to connect to the net)... when I checked it out everything worked right off the bat, internet and all (I was pretty damn impressed, coming from a Windows background). I'm not experienced enough with Knoppix or Linux in general to offer much advice beyond that, but information shouldn't be too hard to find using google..

As for being able to access the files, yes... you have to mount the other partition(s)/drive(s) to the current filesystem... I can't remember whether Knoppix tried to do this for you or not, and on top of that I'm not sure where it would mount them to since t's running from a CD... anyone else know? Anyway, if you end up having to mount them manually, make sure you mount them as read-only because Linux doesn't play well with NTFS quite yet (so I hear, and who am I to question it? ).

 

[jonmullen]

if it does not show a device like eth* in the ifconfig output than you will have to see if the module is loaded. To check this you will have to run /sbin/lsmod I dont know specifically which module your NIC will need but I am sure someone here will know.

 

[Sunner]

I don't know how you access the net, but you might have to configure the network interface.
I've never connected Knoppix through DHCP, so I don't know if it defaults to that.

Anyway, assuming you're using KDE(the default DE), it's something like KMenu->Knoppix->Settings/System, something like that anyway

 

[lowtech1]

Fireup Shell Konsole and ping 127.0.0.1 to see if your network card is working or not.

Did you set up your own internal network or you uses the address that your ISP give it to you?

If you don't have DHCP then you must config the IP for a static address in the provided range, see below:

Kmenu > KNOPPIX > Network/Internet > Network card configuration > Use DHCP broadcast? [Yes] [No] > Please enter IP adrress for eth0 > Please enter Network Mask for eth0 > Please enter Broad Cast address for eth0 > Please enter Broad Cast address for eth0 > Please enter Default Gateway for eth0 > Please enter Nameserver(s)

* Use DHCP boardcast?
Yes - for DHCP
No - for manual static configuration

* Please enter IP adrress for eth0.
Enter the appropriate IP that is free or is given to you by your network admin/ISP (ie. 192.168.0.xxx)
Eth0 is the first or the only networkcard that you have, and use to connect to the internet.

* Please enter Network Mask for eth0
Enter the appropriate network mask that is provided to you by your admin/ISP (ie. 255.255.xxx.0)

* Please enter Broad Cast address for eth0
Enter the appropriate broadcast address for your network. (normally it is the last IP of your network range)

* Please enter Default Gateway for eth0
Enter the appropriate Gateway that is provided by your admin/ISP.

* Please enter Nameserver(s)
Enter the appropriate DNS server name that is provided by your admin/ISP.

Good luck!

 

[Macro2]

Thanks for the posts. I'm posting using Mozilla and Knoppix now. I switched to a computer using a netgear NIC and it just works.
Knoppix is OK and I'm still playing around with it. Can't seem up up my screen resolution without restarting Knoppix and then don't you lose the settings anyway?
From what I've seen I prefer the front end of Lycoris, mainly because it looks like Windows XP and at least I'm familiar with that.