Knoppix

dhrumantgoradia · 04-26-2005, 05:08 PM

hi, ive put knoppix on a cd and botted to the cd but when it gets to detecting network cards, it gets stuck on"DHCP ...for ip address"

kencaz · 04-26-2005, 05:17 PM

Are you using DHCP? To allow it to boot and figure the network problem after try:

boot: knoppix no dhcp

KC

Tuxman8898 · 04-26-2005, 06:08 PM

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Originally posted by kencaz
Are you using DHCP? To allow it to boot and figure the network problem after try:

boot: knoppix no dhcp

KC

Yeah but then he might not be able to use internet

dhrumantgoradia · 05-01-2005, 05:18 PM

if i use "knoppix no dhcp" then it still does the same thing, and if i use fail safe then my mouse and keyboard won't work because they the usb

HappyTux · 05-01-2005, 05:32 PM

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Originally posted by dhrumantgoradia
if i use "knoppix no dhcp" then it still does the same thing, and if i use fail safe then my mouse and keyboard won't work because they the usb

That would be one word eg. knoppix nodhcp give that a try and see it it works. If it boots once you get to KDE desktop click on the monitor with a clamshell on it in the taskbar and type in sudo netcardconfig and try to configure the network that way.

Lleb_KCir · 05-01-2005, 07:10 PM

sudo netcardconfig

would that not be ifconfig to configure the NIC?

also what type of NIC is it? there are still a lot of 10/100/1000 onboards NICs out there that are not detected by most distros Knoppix included. I know my Asus MB has one that is not detected by SuSe, FC, Debian (even with the 2.6.x kernel) or Knoppix. i had to install an older 3Com 3C905b in my system for linux to auto detect my NIC.

HappyTux · 05-01-2005, 07:22 PM

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Originally posted by Lleb_KCir
sudo netcardconfig

would that not be ifconfig to configure the NIC?

Could be if you wanted too but Knoppix has a dialog based configuration tool called netcardconfig which will try either dhcp or static settings based on what you tell it to do.