Cannot change to left-handed mouse. Cannot connect to network.

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curaga:
Yes, your cd drive is clearly failing. Should also fsck the partitions ;)

Both of your network cards appear to work perfectly, so the issue is in the network.

Please post the output of "ifconfig eth0" "cat /etc/resolv.conf", and "ping -c3 google.com".

KingBongo:
The CD drive is still loading stuff so it will stay until it dies :P After that I have another one. Doesn't TC perform "fsck" automatically now and then or is that something only more bloated distros do?

Ok, will do. But no other distro I have tried has had any problems with the network before, so something must be fishy here. Here it comes, but (for now) only for the Realtek card,

Realtek card -

"ifconfig eth0" -

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BF:E4:43:AC
   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
   RX packets:77 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
   TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
   collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
   RX bytes:18144 (17.7 KiB) TX bytes:16023 (15.6 KiB)
   Interrupt:9 Base address:0xcf00

"cat /etc/resolv.conf" - no output

"ping -c3 google.com" - ping: bad address 'google.com'

"ping -c3 http://www.google.com" - ping: bad port spec 'http://www.google.com'

"ping -c3 http://www.google.com/" - ping: bad port spec 'http://www.google.com/'

The first "ping" yielded a result that didn't seem right so I tried two more :) Hmmm, "bad port spec" seems suspect. Something port related? I have to mention that this computer is directly hard-wired to a Mac Mini via the Ethernet port. And yes, the ports in Mac/OS X are open. This has been working out of the box on other distros so.

EDIT: I don't know if it is of any use but here are the results for the 3Com card,

3Com card -

"ifconfig eth0" -

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:04:4F:36:68
   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
   RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
   TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
   collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
   RX bytes:2213 (2.1 KiB) TX bytes:2943 (2.8 KiB)
   Interrupt:9 Base address:0x2f80

"ping -c3 google.com" - ping: bad address 'google.com'

"ping -c3 http://www.google.com" - ping: bad port spec 'http://www.google.com'

"ping -c3 http://www.google.com/" - ping: bad port spec 'http://www.google.com/'

It seems to have the same issues as the Realtek card.

curaga:
No, TC doesn't fsck automatically. Looks like you're not getting an IP nor a DNS server, are you sure there's a DHCP server properly running on the Mac?

KingBongo:
curaga:
There should be a DHCP server properly running on the Mac. How do I check?

What I know is that I get a proper connection at once if I put Debian 5, Ubuntu 8.04, Knoppix, and a few Puppy versions in there. At least they claim (Debian, Ubuntu, Puppy) they are connecting automatically via DHCP. I am sure Knoppix does too but I don't remember how that was done. That has to imply a proper DHCP server, doesn't it?

PS. Thank you soooo much for helping me out! This issue is all that is keeping me from getting something useful out of this ages old computer again :)

curaga:
Maybe there's some incompatibility with busybox udhcpc and the mac dhcp server. You could check what IP settings and DNS servers are given in other distros, and set those manually in TC. ("ifconfig eth0" output, and the /etc/resolv.conf file).

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