Linux works on a flash drive except for the internet
 

I am having some trouble trying to get Linux Mint to connect to the internet on my pc. I followed the instructions: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/linux-m...nstall-via-cd/ Everything runs great except when connecting to the internet. It shows that I have the driver on the USB, but it says I need to activate it in the Hardware option. In order to activate it I need to plug in the hard line before I can use wi-fi but I would like to know what I'm doing wrong. Everytime I restart or boot up I have to go through the whole process of plugging the hard line back into the pc to activate the driver. Can someone tell me what I am missing here? Thanks.

I've been running Puppy Linux via USB for months now. When I first got it I followed the instructions for setting up Wi-Fi but it never found my wireless connection. Then eventually I tried changing the encryption of my router to TKPS and then tried searching and like the 6th try it found it. It's worked ever since. So you might want to try changing your encryption.

Can you walk me through on how to do that please?

On the side of your router you should have a URL something like http://192.168.1.1 when you log onto that from a PC that is hardwired to it you should be able to access the settings manager of it. Usually it will ask you for your u/n p/w, which by default is sually ADMIN, ADMIN, of course you may want to IXquick (or some prefer the old method of Google) your particular router to be sure.

Oh. Well here's the thing. I don't have the internet at home. So I have to do this at work and I can't touch their router. I use my pc when I go to coffee shops or even bring it here at work to hop in to get what I need. Do you know of another way that I can get this to work?

I don't know if anyone else can help me on this. Is this a software issue or a hardware issue? Maybe I am in the wrong forum???

Is this DJNOS back under a different name ?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...itself-732009/

This may be relevant to your problem in that if your usb device doesn't have a persistent layer or home it may not be saving your settings. Then on subsequent boots you have to enable settings over again.

I use Fedora and know that when you create a live-usb you have to have persistence to save your settings and that is a feature you have to choose during the creation process. LiveUSB-Creator gui has slider bar that selects the size for your persistent layer. So if you are creating a live-usb and the image size is say about 700 MB you could safely choose a persistent layer size of 256 MB for a 1 GB usb device. I usually try to use 2 GB sticks for a larger layer. :)

No sir far slayer. This is his wife. :P He got tired of trying to figure it out so I say I will give it a try. I do not know much more than he does but I can be more patient. ;)

And I will definitely look into this and the link you two posted tomorrow. Isn't it rough having a job and not having any time to play? :P. Ah well. Ya gotta live right?! Thanks :)

Was just curious since the problem sounded so similar..
At least now theres a link between the two threads so others can see what we've looked at already.

Wish I had a better answer for you but I'm not sure what the issue is.

I will try to look into but hey, how can it get any worse? HEHE. I have Linux on a disk, I have a usb drive, and a broken laptop. I can take a crack at it. The worst thing that happens is I get to where I am now right??? HEHE. I will try to look at the persistant thingy today. ;)

I got stuck on this part: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/how-to-...-rw-loop-file/
This looks like the same place Craig, my husband, got stuck on. The persistant file, casper-rw is 3.1G big, but on this link it says on step 2 to type something. This is where I am stuck. I don't see where I type "dd if=/dev/zero of=casper-rw bs=1M count=1024" (replacing 1024 with the "size in MB" you wish to use for saving changes persistently). Did I miss something somewhere?

You need to type this at a "terminal" or "Console" or "Konsole" or "xterm"
Lots of different names, but all the same thing: "It looks like DOS command line". The icon will probably look like a black TV screen.

It'll be on your GUI's menu somewhere. I find it under "Utilities" and "System" (so, you see, it's a pretty vital thing for fine-tuning linux).

When you have finished typing commands (and nothing will happen until you press the RETURN on your keyboard), just close the terminal window.

If you receive errors, please tell us exactly what they are.

Using 1024 will give you a 1GB persistent file.
Using 2048 will give you a 2GB persistent file.
Etc.

None of this stuff is "difficult". Trust me and try it.

Okie Dokie. This is what happened:

I typed all that in the terminal. Then I went to copy what it said after I typed in mkfs.ext3 -F casper-rw and my laptop froze up on me. I had to shut it down manually (hold the power button).
After I rebooted I tried the whole process again and this is what it says after I do the first part (dd if=/dev/zero of=casper-rw bs=1M count=2048):

dd: writing `casper-rw': No space left on device
177+0 records in
176+0 records out
184672256 bytes (185 MB) copied, 1.57368 s, 117MB/s.

What did I break? HAHA

I think I damaged the Mint Disk. Just an assumption.