newbie question on distro problems
I like mepis but am having endless problems connecting to the internet (broadband). Other distro's work okay with the internet (Kanotix/Ubuntu)
but they have their own issues. Is it possible to take a distro and insert working parts from other distro to make linux work okay on my setup... Thanks |
You can--in principle--take any bit of software from one machine (distro, etc.) and install it on another. This is not , however, going to be an efficient way to solve your problems.
What is the issue with Mepis? What happens when you connect? Error messages? Details-----we need DETAILS!!! |
Thanks for the response. No error messages from mepis, it just will not connect to interner. It did once upon a time and took longer and longer to connect each time. Now either it will not connect or it takes many attempts at rebooting.
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Do you have a router?
What happens when you try to connect?---can you ping a domain name? A raw IP address? Is your connection static IP or DHCP? What configuration have you done? Please post the output of ifconfig... |
Somewhere in the /var/log directory, on most systems, you may find log-files that will help you to understand just what it's doing.
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Thank you both for the advice.
Cannot ping- DHCP- Netgear router DG834 Do you mean /sbin/ifconfig files......... lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:468 (468.0 b) TX bytes:468 (468.0 b) |
Can you get to your router configuration page? (Typically using a browser)
if you typed ifconfig and got that printout without anything about eth0 or similar, then it seems that computer is not talking to the router--or that it is not seeing the ethernet adapter Can you watch when system is booting up to see if it is detecting your ethernet card? (or check the logs) |
Will check next time it happens. Got so fed up with the problem that I did a re-install and mepis connected. Assume the problem will arise again.........
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Mepis has gone back to it's old self - not connecting to internet
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