I hear similar problem with some hardware.dawnsboy wrote:Lucid Puppy 5.1 will auto-connect to this network when booting from CD. However it will not remember the network settings between boots for frugal or full hard drive installs. Everything else works just fine so far but I have to manually connect to the internet everytime I boot the computer.
Unfortunately i have not such a hardware, hope you try and test to resolve the problem.
Only i can do is giving you some information for a help.
The recent puppies automatically find and connect the ethernet.
In this case, right click the 'Connect' icon on the desktop does not work properly.
Right click the 'Connect' icon and 'Autoconnect' should refresh connection, but...
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 017#444017
Assume the CD boot is OK but NG from HDD. You cannot try the 'Autoconnect'. Most of puppies launches the connectwizard because of the issue above.
Instead, type on the virtual terminal:
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/etc/rc.d/rc.network
Look up /etc/rc.d/rc.network by the text editor. As for the timing, you can see at around line 340-.
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# wait up to MAXWAIT seconds, in case some firmware is slow to load
MAXWAIT=12
Such a case often with usb or notebook card.
Probing the modules relating pcmcia, cradbus or usb may affect.
The log at the bootup process can be seen at /tmp/bootsysinit.log.
Also /tmp/dhcpd.log may left.
The Network Wizard leaves the interface informations under the /etc/network-wizard directory.
P.S.
I do NOT recommend to try SNS or Pwireless2. It may confuse the analysis.
Think that the automatic connection with the live CD was performed by the Dougal's Network Wizard and it was OK.