Hi All,

I have an old Dell Latitude LS PIII 500mhz 128mb Ram, 60gb HDD and after some searching for suitable a operating system which would run on this low spec machine I decided to go for antiX-M11-486

Trouble is I'm a complete newbie to Linux and just can't seem to get a connection to the internet.

I've tried all sorts, my network card has been found and set to eth1 and appears to be connecting to the router and registering its mac address but just won't load anything from the internet. The Router is DHCP Server enabled

I've tried reconfiguring the network settings via ROXTerm to DHCP and to Static both without success

Any help will be much appreciated

Regards

Longway

have you tried (as root in a terminal)

dhclient eth1

or

ifup eth1

I have tried entering those commands but not sure if anything happened
first I opened a Terminal window from the deskstop, but not sure how I run the Terminal as root, tried logging out and then back in as root but it just returns to log in screen, I also went to start menu/run/ then an option to enter a command opens giving you the choice to run your command as root in a terminal, I did this and the commands run but the terminal then just closed immediately after running giving no feedback.

As I said, I am a complete novice when it comes to Linux and running commands

I also have a 2nd network card which plugs in via the PCMCIA slot with the same results

antiX seems to set up the cards by default to DCHP, which should be OK as my router is set as DHCP Server
MTU is 1500 - is this OK? if not how can I adjust this?

When I try to load google.com it attempts to look up but almost always times out, only once or twice has the page managed to load but very slowly

Longway,

to run commands as root in a terminal do this:
1) open terminal
2) type su
3) enter the password
4) then enter the commands anticapitalista suggested and see if your internet connection is established.

I have now run these commands but still no internet

These were the outputs from running commands

root@anti1X:home/dell# dhclient eth2
ifup eth2
root@antiX1:/home/dell# ifup eth2
ifup: interface eth2 already configured
root@antiX:home/dell#

When I re configure eth2 via Network interface(ceni)
if I set to method = dhcp
class = auto

then click accept terminal screen the runs
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67

for several intervals but
no DHCPOFFERS are received

or if I reconfigure eth2 Method = static & class = auto
IP Address = 192.168.1.4 (router has mac address for eth2 set at this)
network =192.168.1.1 (this I assume to be the router address, also tried 192.168.1.0 without success)
netmask = 255.255.255.0
broadcast = 192.168.1.255

any ideas as to where I'm going wrong?

Hello longway,

It might be helpful if you posted your inxi -F from your terminal. I'm curious to see if you are using an Atheros wireless card.

Perhaps it is this. antix-test-versions-to-play-with-new-t3557-45.html

The"nohwcrypt bug". I don't know if it has been fixed yet.

Dave

Dave, I've Run inxi –f with the following output

Cpu single core Pentium III (coppermine) (-up-) cache 256 kb clocked at 497.755 MHz
Cpu flags fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 mmx fxsr sse

There is no wireless card on the laptop, it has a internal wired ethernet -realtek RTL 8139
and an external Belkin 3com 3c905C-TX (tried this just in case there was a problem with internal card but no different)

Sorry, longway. I'm at a loss. __{{emoticon}}__