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KingBongo:
Hi. I am new to TinyCore and loving it already! This is what I call "trimming off the fat" :) I am having some problems though. Hope this is the right forum.

Background -

The computer I am playing with is an old Pentium 1 (i586), 200MHz, 128Mb RAM. It works great, despite the fact that barely nothing can be installed or booted on it. When you finally manage to install something on it, it runs slooooooow for the most part. That is why I tried TinyCore in the first place. TC seems to make this thing totally fly!

I am running TinyCore 3.5.

Problems -

1. I managed to figure out how to configure the serial mouse during boot. That was not very hard, "tinycore xsetup" at the boot prompt does the trick. But when I try to set the mouse to a left-handed one (Control Panel -> Mouse Tool -> Left Button - Apply) it doesn't work. The mouse remains right-handed. How to fix that?

2. I cannot connect to the network. When I want to install apps and connect (Apps -> Connect) it says "Connection error, check network or mirror.". Then, when trying to configure the network (Control Panel -> Network -> Use DHCP Broadcast "yes" -> Apply) nothing happens. I still get the same error message when I try to install apps. Am I doing something wrong or do I have incompatible hardware?

Please help me with the problems mentioned above. I plan to install TC to hard drive later together with a music player.

Juanito:

--- Quote from: KingBongo on March 03, 2011, 07:43:54 AM ---I cannot connect to the network. When I want to install apps and connect (Apps -> Connect) it says "Connection error, check network or mirror.". Then, when trying to configure the network (Control Panel -> Network -> Use DHCP Broadcast "yes" -> Apply) nothing happens. I still get the same error message when I try to install apps. Am I doing something wrong or do I have incompatible hardware?

--- End quote ---

Is your network hardware wired or wireless?

What specific hardware do you have (manufacturer, model, etc)?

KingBongo:
Juanito:
Thank you! It is a wired card, Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+. Will it work? I have another one I could try, model unknown at this point.

Juanito:
After searching these forums, it seems several uses have had problems with realtek harware..

Does "lsmod" show that the realtek driver is loaded? Does "dmesg | grep realtek" show anything?

If the driver is not loaded, you could try "sudo modprobe realtek"

KingBongo:
Juanito:

- "lsmod" gives (among others)

8139too (used by 0)
8139cp (used by 0)

so I guess they are loaded then, or?

- "dmesg | grep realtek" doesn't give anything.

- "sudo modprobe realtek" and then again "lsmod" gives (among others)

libphy (used by 1 realtek)
8139too (used by 0)
8139cp (used by 0)

I don't know what it all means, but there seem to be some stuff related to realtek.

Edit: I tried my other network card as well. It seems to work even less :) But I knew that before I even tried. It is some kind of 3Com card that is much bigger and (judging by the looks of it) much older than the Realtek card.

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