I'm almost a total noob at Linux in general.
I am in possession of a very old Toshiba Satellite 1800-400 laptop which doesn't have an Ethernet port; it has a 56k modem, DVD-ROM, 15GB HDD and it's been upgraded to 512MB RAM. Trident CyberBlade graphics chip. http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-p ... -1800-400/
I tried a few distros, but most of them lead to a black screen because the Trident CyberBlade/i1 driver crashes xorg. I played with the ACPI boot options until I got Wary Puppy installed, then edited xorg.conf to include the NoDDC as specified by http://michaelminn.com/linux/toshiba1800/
I then updated the BIOS from 1.50 to 2.20 and tried Precise Puppy Retro again. I needed the following boot options to boot from the Live CD:
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puppy acpi=strict pkeys=uk pfix=nox
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1"
Driver "trident"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "NoDDC"
EndSection
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Section "Monitor"
Identifier "ToshLCD"
Option "DPMS"
#HorizSync 30-71
VertRefresh 50-100
EndSection
I have set the DNS servers to the router and to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, but I still don't receive any Internet.
I tried changing my Cat 6 cable to a Cat 5 with no joy.
FYI, I am now triple-booting XP with Wary and Precise Puppies and all of them work ATM.
I will copy and paste some Hardware Reports into a reply.
I will try to load Wireshark and debug the Internet problem some more, but if you have any ideas how I can get a connection please spill.
Thank you.