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Topic: New user problems, Problems with getting DSL 1.5 on net

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doobit

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Posted: Sep. 26 2005,20:01

the Rhine adapter is a VIA adapter. I'm having the same problem in reverse. I have Win98 that won't resolve a DNS and DSL that works like a charm on the same machine. There are versions of the VIA Rhine adapters. I think Rhine III is the latest. VIA may have Linux drivers available on it's support site. However, DSL should have it working right at boot up as DHCP. How are you running DSL? Did you checksum the iso?

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Posted: Sep. 27 2005,13:52

I did not checksum the download, but I've never had problems with a corrupt download on my broadband connection. I'm running DSL from a Compact Flash card that looks like a hard disk to the system, using LOADLIN to boot the kernel. My net card is a Rhine II and does work with Win98 and Fedora Linux. My router supplies an IP address via DHCP, but doesn't seem to provide a name server address for some reason even though I've configured it with one. I've had to manually provide name server addresses on my other computers as well, but, once I do that, everything works fine except with DSL.

doobit

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Posted: Sep. 27 2005,16:24

Do you have another machine available to monitor the router's admin screen? If so you can check to see it the router sees the computer. DSL will show up with the computer name "box" unless you change it.

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Posted: Sep. 27 2005,17:59

I don't have another computer handy that can do that, but I did boot DSL differently and got it to work. I've been doing "Reboot in MSDOS" mode from Windows and tried instead to set up a shortcut to execute LOADLIN. This creates CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files at the root level of my Windows boot volume, then goes through a hardware restart. Somehow that works where "Reboot in MSDOS" will not. At this point, I may just wait for my bootable USB pen drive to come from the DSL "store" and use that rather than trying to use a floppy boot drive.

doobit

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Posted: Sep. 27 2005,20:40

OK, I think I get what's going on with that. One of the first things DSL does when it boots from the CD is look for a DHCP network connection. Since you are booting MSDOS that can't happen. I'm curious as to why you can't format the card FAT32 and use the Frugal install to make the card a bootable volume. I don't want to waste you time if this information is available somewhere else, but I'm asking because I thought that was how the compact flash installs on the VIA eden based machines worked. I want to get one of those for myself to put in the livingroom in front of the TV!

OK, look...check this out I did a little searching around. Why are you doctors all using the little VIA machines? Anyway, here's alink that my help. There was a lot of info on CF bootables when I searched BTW.

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....38;st=0

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