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I can't connect to the internet with my Mepis live CD. I have both a wireless card, and wired broadband access. The signal on the card shows up as excellent. ...
- 05-26-2007 #1Just Joined!
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Internet connection
I can't connect to the internet with my Mepis live CD. I have both a wireless card, and wired broadband access. The signal on the card shows up as excellent. However, when I start Mozilla or Konquerer, both can't load web pages. I checked that I'm not working offline. I actually tried booting this disk on another computer, with the same problem. I also tried installing the OS onto the hard drive. What else can I try before I give up and install Windows XP?
- 05-26-2007 #2Linux User
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As I see it the most likely problem is that you don’t get any IP address. Use 'ifconfig' to see if that is the case.
To obtain a IP-adress see 'man ifconfig' or 'man dhcpcd' for DHCP.
- 05-26-2007 #3Just Joined!
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It looks like I have an IP. Here's what I have on the screen:
#ifconfig
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:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:284 (284.0 b) TX bytes:284 (284.0 b)
- 05-27-2007 #4Linux Enthusiast
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Have you tried iwconfig ?
In Konsole with root access you should type> iwconfig ath0 (OR wlan0 Or whatewer card you have) essid PROVIDERNAME
After that> dhclient
If everything goes fine, after that you'll be able to connect to the internet. You should check one more thing: in the Konsole type> lspci , and if you get the exact modell of your wireless card with no <unknown> parts, it must work.If you need a CD/DVD catalogizer, give a try to my program:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show...content=100682
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- 07-21-2007 #5Just Joined!
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No Ip here ...
You must also have an eth0 entry above this one...
Originally Posted by pianomatrix 
I just worked on a laptop yesterday and for some weird reason it had
the eth0 wired link inactive...
go into mepis whatever version you're using and make sure the eth0 is
active verified by ifconfig in a terminal....
It should look something like this:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:56:1B:35:99
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:216609 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:545649 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:306473605 (292.2 MiB) TX bytes:37920488 (36.1 MiB)
Interrupt:20
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:447 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:447 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:50351 (49.1 KiB) TX bytes:50351 (49.1 KiB)
* and stop threatening to "go back to windows"
nobody wants to listen to that....
You want help....
the linux community will take forever if necessary helping you
the windows community will take your money for helping you...!!!
If the above advice doesn't work for you...come back here and we will make it
work if it is at all possible...
ciao
burdicda
- 08-18-2007 #6Just Joined!
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network problem
the same thing happen to me. I had a linksys wireless card and a wired ethernet card. when I installed Mepis(6.5.02 32 bit) I had the wired card hook to my cable modem. after installing Mepis the ethernet card worked, when I tried to switch to the wireless card everything looked great using all the tools (ifconfig ndiswrapper etc.) I could even ping my router. but could not access the internet. and Mepis said I was connected. And I spent 3 days trying all kinds of tricks to make my wireless work. SO, my solutionn was to disconnect the ethernet wire to the card and reinstall Mepis, this time it saw the wireless card and set it up properly and I am now OK.
I know this solution is a pain but it worked.
- 08-18-2007 #7Just Joined!
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I was joking. Hence the little blue smiley face winking at you ever so deviously... Anyways, thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I was wrestling with this problem quite a while ago, and since then the laptop completely died. I'm actually kinda relieved. hehe Originally Posted by burdicda
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