thanks, i will give those older versions a try. btw, i bought a wireless usb device so that i can run the internet off this installation and using the simple network wizard it's up and running. i would still prefer to get the connect running from eth0 rather than wlan since it's not as fast as i'd ...

hi there,

Lapis, thanks for the suggestion but it didn't work either. I typed 10.1.1.1 into the browser and it returned the following error

Failed to Connect
The connection was refused when attempting to contact 10.1.1.1

Hmm, will keep trying...

hi guys beem, thanks for your suggestion... i tried typing the dhcpcd eth0 into a console and it returned this error: Error, eth0: timed out Error, eth0: lease information file '/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.info' does not exist Warning, eth0: using IPV4LL address 169.254.221.136 will try the other ...

hi guys thanks for continuing to help... firstly, yes that is the router I have. to answer your questions on the LED's... On the router - * power led is on * status LED is blinking * of the 4 LED's, the ones with the LAN cable to the computer plugged in is definitely on On the computer, next to ...

yes, that's correct.

it's a D-Link DSL-504T.

the only issue I can see is that one of the lights on the router blinks. however, it does this when connected to the laptop (running windows). also, i tried resetting the router and it didn't make a difference from what I could tell.

does this help?

hi there it's an Acer Desktop running Centrino. Not sure about the rest, but it's running Puppy and Quirky fine otherwise. In my attempts to get this working I installed Puppy 4.3 earlier and it didn't work either. The only difference was that the wizard told me that the connection was successful ...

hi guys trying again... thanks for your continued help! okay, so I decided I had mucked around with puppy, quirky, etc. installations, so I decided to start again and load puppy 5.01 again, a fresh install on my hard drive. again, the network couldn't connect, so I ran ifconfig... eth0 Link encap ...

thanks for trying to help... but i don't have a usb stick to transfer the file contents that come up so I can show you (it's on the other computer). i have been trying for about 4 days to get the internet to work, on puppy and quirky, and nothing seems to help. it's definitely not the internet ...

hey everyone, impressed by the willingness of everyone to help... i have been surfing this and many other forums trying to get a resolution to my problem, which is very similar to the one posted here. i am about to ditch the puppy, just thought before i do i would see if anyone has a solution ...

hey everyone, impressed by the willingness of everyone to help... i have been surfing this and many other forums trying to get a resolution to my problem, which is very similar to the one posted here. i am about to ditch the puppy, just thought before i do i would see if anyone has a solution ...