internet problems with OS puppy linux

mikeyarmy03 · 02-11-2007, 10:35 PM

Im using puppy linux off a cd. Im trying to connect to the internet in puppy linux and havent been able to figure it out. I have road runner. Ive tried the roaring penguin and tried just putting in my own IPs. Im really new to puppy linux and some what new to linux. Ive used unix with static ips but never had to use DHCP on there. Please help. My email is mikeyarmy03@yahoo.com thanks in advance for anyones help.

Mike

MS3FGX · 02-12-2007, 02:20 AM

Well, what exactly have you tried to get it working? I assume this is Ethernet, and not WiFi?

You first want to be sure that your NIC is properly detected. You can verify this by running "ifconfig" without any parameters. You should see two interfaces at the very least, "lo" and "eth0". If you only have "lo", then there is a problem and you will need to give us more information.

If you have an eth0, then doing something like the following would get a DHCP lease:

Code:

sudo dhcpcd -t 30 eth0

Does that not work?