Sidini & Alexsej,
Interesting! I first gain root access in XTerm and enter pppoe-stop and get the following output: "No PPPoE connection appears to be running". This though I just this minute loaded a site on Firefox in my Windows box. I am perfectly able to ping my router from my Linux box also. Moving forward, I enter ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 and I get a prompt. Next, I type ifcong eth0 192.168.1.103 which is the IP address assigned to the Live CD by my router's DHCP and I also get a prompt. Finally, I bring up the Midori brower, type http://www.drudgereport.com in the address bar and get a cannot resolve hostname error back from the browser.
This result is just typical of what I've gotten with three or four different distros trying to serf with either installed or Live CD versions. I can't get on the internet about 98% of the time with Seamonkey, Dillo, Midori or anything else. I've tried tinkering with overriding the ISP's DNS numbers to no avail. I'm being told that I'm connected but the Linux box won't load web pages while the Windows box will. How to solve?
As to background: A+ certified back in the late 1990s, built all of my computers since with high quality stuff, all, that is, except the Linux box now in question which was my first computer, a NEC Direction 233 L, which I upgraded about 10 years ago with a PII 333 processor, 256 SDRAM, a 30GB hard drive and a 52X CD writer. This configuration maxed out the capabilities of the motherboard. As to Linux, I've played with various distros over the years, nothing lately till now, however. Have dated experience with Gentoo, Arch, Crux, mainly. Hope this helps.
