Fatdog64-630: I can't connect wlan NOR wired eth0(Solved)
Posted: Thu 27 Feb 2014, 17:54
I'm VERY new to Fatdog. But with a bit of help, and a little blind luck I was able to make a bootable fatdog flashdrive. BUT when I boot it I can't get it to connect to the internet via my broadband (fairpoint DSL)...
I've tried on my laptop which uses wlan0 OR wlan1 depending on which installed Linux is running. (the built in wireless adapter on my laptop has never worked. (not even with the Vista that my laptop was allegedly "designed for" So when I set-up my wireless router to provide wpa2-psk access, I had to use a usb wireless adaptor, Which works just fine in vista, And has worked well with several different Linux Distros, though I've often had to find out how to ditch the default network manager and replace it with wicd (when available) I remember that for opensuze I had to tell yast to disable network manager so that yast itself could manage my wlan connection using what it called "traditional" methods. And I know that I've never been able to configure wpa supplicant to make a wireless connection on my laptop with any of the Linux I've used on it.
I know that as long as I could supply my preshared key, neither Slacko 5.6 nor precise 5.7.1 had any trouble connecting via the "simple" connection wizard. But with fatdog, I tried both wpa_gui, and also the "Network Wizard" as is described in http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/fa ... rking.html But neither could make the connection.
So I shutdown, and moved the flashdrive to my desktop which has a wired "eth0" connection to the router which provides DHCP services. I figured I could do things like download the devx sfs file and maybe find fatdog pets for midnight commander, alpine, konsole & yakuake, to name a few...
But I don't seem to be able to even configure DHCP on eth0 via the "Network Wizard"... I must be getting stupid or something because I don't ever remember having to do much thinking to get that connection working.
Any suggestions
In the mean time I guess I'll try downloading the devx sfs and an mc pet with the Precise puppy I'm running now, Then I'll save them someplace I can retrieve them with fatdog. Maybe the wpa supplicant will be more cooperative when it can take advantage of whatever's in the devx...
I mean it's worth a try.
I've tried on my laptop which uses wlan0 OR wlan1 depending on which installed Linux is running. (the built in wireless adapter on my laptop has never worked. (not even with the Vista that my laptop was allegedly "designed for" So when I set-up my wireless router to provide wpa2-psk access, I had to use a usb wireless adaptor, Which works just fine in vista, And has worked well with several different Linux Distros, though I've often had to find out how to ditch the default network manager and replace it with wicd (when available) I remember that for opensuze I had to tell yast to disable network manager so that yast itself could manage my wlan connection using what it called "traditional" methods. And I know that I've never been able to configure wpa supplicant to make a wireless connection on my laptop with any of the Linux I've used on it.
I know that as long as I could supply my preshared key, neither Slacko 5.6 nor precise 5.7.1 had any trouble connecting via the "simple" connection wizard. But with fatdog, I tried both wpa_gui, and also the "Network Wizard" as is described in http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/fa ... rking.html But neither could make the connection.
So I shutdown, and moved the flashdrive to my desktop which has a wired "eth0" connection to the router which provides DHCP services. I figured I could do things like download the devx sfs file and maybe find fatdog pets for midnight commander, alpine, konsole & yakuake, to name a few...
But I don't seem to be able to even configure DHCP on eth0 via the "Network Wizard"... I must be getting stupid or something because I don't ever remember having to do much thinking to get that connection working.
Any suggestions
In the mean time I guess I'll try downloading the devx sfs and an mc pet with the Precise puppy I'm running now, Then I'll save them someplace I can retrieve them with fatdog. Maybe the wpa supplicant will be more cooperative when it can take advantage of whatever's in the devx...
I mean it's worth a try.