I can't connect to internet via wired, adding DSL profile with user and password. While installing kali linux 2.0 there was a warning telling that there is missing non-free firmware rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw but it is in /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/ Have Realtek RTL8139/810x Fast Ethernet Adapter PCI. Was no problem on previous versions of Kali.

I am have come across my old computer in my attic. It is a very old windows 98 HP computer. I can give more specs if needed. I was wondering if I could install Damn Small Linux on a flash drive and boot to it and install it over the current operating system and run linux properly without an internet connection. Like what is there to do on a linux system without internet? will this be a good learning environment for me to familiarize myself with linux? Should/Could I possibly try to take apart the operating system and look into it. Another added on question is should I maybe run archlinux instead of DSL and temporarily connect to the internet to get that set up or is that too advanced for me and even that old of a computer. The reason that I cannot connect to the internet is because I am going to be hooking this computer up in my bedroom and the internet is in my parents room and I do not believe that this old of a system can run with wireless internet. However, I can temporarily connect via ethernet cable but not for long.

I'm running Damn Small Linux. When you open the command prompt, you are automatically logged in as the default user called dsl and granted root privileges (with sudo). How can I set a password for the default user called dsl, so that when I open a command prompt, I have to enter a password? I tried passwd dsl but when I open the command terminal, I don't get prompted by a password.

My Win XP SP3 registry is corrupted(my own fault) so I need to move windows/repair/system to windows/system32/config/system. I have tried DSL, Sliax? and tinycore. DSL give me a 'cannot - as readonly filesystem' So i try a chmod 777 /dev/hda1 and a chown 777 /dev/hda1 and a mount, -oremount, rw /mnt/hda1 none work although the remount rw does remove the readonly filesystem message but then just gives a cannot complete this operation. I am logged on as SU. Sliax however shows the hda1 drive but wont even mount it, 'error org.freedesktop.hal. device.volume.unknownfairlure bracket' error I also have this error written done, can't remember what I did to cause this one, ' wrong fs type bad option bad superblock on /dev/hda1 or too many mounted filesystems unable to remove operatrion not permitted' So basically how do I move a file from a NTFS filesystem (Win XP) from a live CD?

I'm trying to set up a PXE boot server for multiple different OSes. So far I have it working with Linux Mint, Arch Linux, and a GParted image. I'm trying to do Damn Small Linux completely within RAM, so the host doesn't have to stay connected to the network to work. I followed this tutorial: http://damnsmalllinux.org/f/topic-3-26-15960-0.html However, I get the following screen when I try to boot it: vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: directcolor: size=0:8:8:8, shift=0:16:8:0 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured FDC 0 is a S82078B RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX3: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:01.1 PIIX3: chipset revision 0 PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc300-0xc307, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc308-0xc30f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio ide: late registration of driver. SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 49583k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-3, errno = 2 VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 03:02 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02 I'm not sure what I need to do here. My minirt24.gz is available for inspection at https://k7dxs.xyz/files/minirt24.gz , and here is the relevant portion of my pxelinux.cfg/default: LABEL Damn Small Linux LINUX dsl/linux24 APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=789 initrd=dsl/minirt24.gz nomce noapic loud BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frominitrd nopcmcia noagp noswap base

I'm using Damn Small Linux (or "DSL") (which is based "non-purely" on Debian - I have access to apt-get) in a Virtual Machine. I installed telnet server (telnetd + xinetd). I'm also running another Virtual Machine, this time with installed telnet client in it (Linux distribution AntiX). When I'm connecting with telnet from AntiX to DSL, I'm prompted about login+password, which is ok. But then, when I log-in it's just shows a message and then freezes. By "freezes" I mean: 1. I can type anything I want, but when I press ENTER the commands are not executed. Instead the cursor just moves to the next line. 2. The line "dsl@dsl$ " (which prompts for entering a command) does not show. 3. In the server side (DSL) the windows flash (close) when the login happens. It seems like some process is running, but the problem is that it never stops. I have to type "Ctrl+C" to stop it and continue with the command line. Here is a screenshot when it freezes: There is also a warning in DSL's site which says that if you install the wrong application via apt-get, then you can break something, "for Instance the X server"? Could this be X server? My questions are: 1. Can I find out which process is running? I'm intended here only to try and make it not start again. 2. Can I make this process not start upon telnet connection? Logging in with root also reproduces the error.

I am thinking about buying Pogoplug (50 $) which is in fact a NAS server similar to the famous nslu2. Like the nslu2, this device can be hacked to have a full fresh Linux server running. There are lots of tutorials on how to install Linux and LAMP to turn it into a web server. Check here **My question is if Pogoplug is able to run Linux, is it then possible to install Puppy Linux (or with live USB) with the graphical user interface?** I ask this because I don't know if there is a graphics board inside. Please excuse my lack of knowledge. Thanks for your time.

Recently my desktop machine is under attack and someone is leeching my DSL bandwidth. After consultation I find out I can tell my modem to ***only*** accept wifi connection according to system MAC address. (mac address of system NIC). I want to know how exactly it works and if it prevent connection from any undefined machines? any other ideas is also welcomed.

I want to use a linux OS on my Nintendo DS Lite. Tried to use the DSLinux, but it turned the device into white and non-responsive screens! Went on IRC channel and got the advice to learn C and solve the DSLinux problem!!!. So the question here is how I can peacefully get an operating system that I can run on my DS lite. The following steps created the error: - Got the file dslinux.tgz from http://www.dslinux.org/builds/ . - Unzipped the file and moved its folder into a SD card. - Inserted the SD within R4SDHC adaptor card and turned on the DS. - Went to its folder and chose the Linux Logo. Then both screen went white.

I'm having an issue with pppd doing PPPoE on CentOS 6.3. The CentOS system is a dedicated router/gateway which performs NAT (both directions) and various packet filtering. It has separate NICs for the LAN and Internet side, eth0 and eth1, respectively. On the Internet side is a DSL modem. The modem likes doing everything itself, including NAT. In order to prevent it from doing so I have to give it invalid account info and then implement PPPoE on the CentOS system. I had a problem when doing PPPoE on the CentOS system with Internet connectivity being very flaky. Clients could access some sites and not others, some web pages would half-load and then always stop at the same position, and TCP connections would often reset. I've isolated this down to an MTU issue. I can get any given client system (all Windows) on the LAN side working fine by reducing its MTU down to 1492 from the standard 1500. On the other hand, if I allow the modem to do PPPoE and NAT, enable IP and the DHCP client on eth1, and set my IP filtering script to route to eth1 instead of ppp0, clients work fine with their MTU set to 1500. (The problem with this config is that double NAT can impact performance and makes inbound connection routing trickier.) Ping testing (with DF) reveals that the Internet-bound MTU is actually still limited to 1492, even though the clients don't need to be set as such. It therefore seems that clients are normally doing path MTU discovery but that pppd (or perhaps NetFilter) is somehow getting in the way of it. I normally have NetFilter (iptables) on the CentOS system set to drop all INPUT and OUTPUT traffic (since the system's only job is forwarding). I tried temporarily changing these policies to ACCEPT, in case path MTU discovery was depending on ICMP errors from it, but the problem remained. I'm not at all experienced in PPPoE and am hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction. Thanks!

I know it's possible to configure the modem to automatically connect the internet using a browser, but I want to do it using bash. I would like the network to automatically connect when the system boots. I have a ADSL2 router/modem and I'm using the Debian 6 Squeeze.