How to obtain internet connection/install packages

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Hello,

I'm completely new to TinyCore Linux but really like it so far.

I'm running an old version (TinyCore 3, kernel 2.6.33.3) in an attempt to maintain compatibility with some ADC driver and data acquisition software.

However, I need to install some more software (gcc - to build the ADC driver, and pciutils.tcz - PCI interface to ADC), but I haven't been able to get my internet working.

I'm trying a wireless connection, ifconfig -a reveals eth0 but it's not active.

I'm very sorry, but I can't even edit a text file, I've tried "joe", "nano", "vi", "emacs" and "editor" and nothing works for me.

I assume I need to add some commands to a start up file to bring up eth0 interface ?

I'm hoping to do that in order to execute "tce-load -wi compiletc"  to get gcc, and I'm not sure how to add pciutils.

I apologize as well, I created an account but I still haven't been able to access the Wiki page.

Thanks in advance for the help.