How to get ethernet connection?

[Stephen]

well you could try manually setting your DNS entries to Google's DNS
and that might get you a step farther. because those responses tell me
you are having DNS look-up issues.

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/
IPv4 addresses: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:48 AM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:
> From the errors, it sounds like you're not getting good DNS servers.
>
> What does "cat /etc/resolv.conf" tell you?
>
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> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:17 AM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Well, with endless experimentation, I finally got a *partial* solution.
>>
>> > What distro are you setting up?
>>
>> I've tried two dozen live CDs and a few live flash sticks.
>> Same problem with all of them.
>>
>> > A) Do you have link light on the card and router?
>>
>> There is a link light lit on the router, none on the computer.
>>
>> > B) What does the last few entries in "dmesg" show you?
>>
>> I'll reply to the rest of your suggestions later,
>> but what I discovered was that after booting windows 7 (yuck)
>> and then trying my PCLinuxOS live CD, the ethernet connection
>> was actually working (partially).
>>
>> But it seems to be very selective in what access I can get.
>>
>> I only have the Konqueror browser available on the Live CD.
>> With it, I can access google.com but no other websites.
>> From google, I can find very few other websites that I can access.
>> Most return an error message saying: "The requested operation
>> could not be completed -- Unknown host"  go figure.
>>
>> I also tried: firefox.com (to try to download it).
>> The mozilla website will launch, but no further actions
>> are possible.
>>
>> This is really bizarre.
>>
>>
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