Well, with PCLinuxOs, I believe that x had the video drivers packaged differently between versions, so it might not be so simple. Anyone competent with PCLinuxOs might want to contact him off list and offer a phone session assist? Obnosis | (503)754-4452 PLUG Linux Security Labs 2nd Saturday Each Month@Noon - 3PM > Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:41:11 -0700 > From: danceswithcrows@usa.net > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > Subject: Re: How to recover X display? v.1.1 > > From: Josef Lowder > > On 3/24/09, Matt Graham wrote: > >> Are you on dialup? If you've got proper bandwidth, > >> "dhclient eth0" or "dhcpcd eth0" should get a dynamic IP > >> address provided eth0 is plugged in to something. > > I have DSL wireless and it was working fine before the crash. > > Even now, when I boot up, I see lights blinking on the 3-COM > > pci card, but since I can't see anything on F7 I can't use the > > wireless connection that I think I have. > > > And I don't know how to establish that connection on one of the > > other F1-F6 command-line only terminals. > > First find out what your NIC is called. "iwconfig" should list > all NICs, and the wired ones will say "no wireless extensions". > So you might see: > > eth0: no wireless extensions > eth1: 802.11b/g ESSID "blah" Mode managed TxPower 89 FooBar 23 > [more settings like that] > lo: no wireless extensions > > Then, you do "dhcpcd eth1" if you have no encryption on and > don't care which AP you connect to. Things get more complex > when you use WEP/WPA, but say which one you're using, and I or > someone else will be able to tell you what's up. Really, I'd > take a length of Cat5 and plug the thing in, rather than deal > with the hassle of wireless for this reasonably short experiment. > > >> Fix the Net access and apt-get upgrade, and > >> you should be good. (I Could Be Wrong.) > > Wish I could. > > The stuff above may help. > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss _________________________________________________________________ HotmailŪ is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_70faster_032009