SimplyMepis 3.3

[gtoman]

i have a new emachines T6528 with an AMD 64 bit cpu with 2 hard drives, xp home on drive C:,(primary master), and simplymepis 3.3 on drive D:, (primary slave) which was installed onto the hard drive when i had it in an older emachines pc with a Celeron 32 bit cpu and had it set as primary master, and it worked fine in it. Now at boot up i get an option to press the F2 key which shows all the drives in the pc. i scroll down and choose which hard drive i want to boot to. when i choose simplymepis it loads perfectly but i'm having a problem with it going online. everything else works good with it except that. could it possibly be a problem because it was installed in a 32 bit pc and now it's in a 64 bit pc and setup in a dual boot configuration? if so, i have no idea what settings to change or whatever needs to done so it will go online like xp does.
any ideas?
thanks,Jim

[Will.Spencer]

More likely, there is some issue with your SimplyMepis network configuration.

Does your new machine have the same network card as machine this hard drive was in when you installed SimplyMepis? If not, the likely culprit is your network card driver.

Check your bootup messages very carefully, they may point to a driver issue.

What does the output of the `ifconfig -a` command tell you?

You may also find some good advice on the Mepis Networking Forum.

[gtoman]

Heres the info in the SimplyMepis Shell-Konsole:
lo link encap: local loopback
innetaddr: 127.0.0.1 mask 255.0.0.0
inet 6 address: ::1/128 Scope:HOST
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX Packets: 49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX Packets: 49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Collosions: 0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes: 3094 (3.0 KiB) TX bytes: 3094 (3.0 KiB)

sit0 Link encap: IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 METRIC:1
RX Packets: 49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX Packets: 49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Collosions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0b) TX bytes:0 (0.0b)

ALSO: The NIC thats in my new pc is embedded into the motherboard. it's an NVIDIA nForceNetworking Controller.
In my OLD PC i have a Netgear FA310TX Fast Ethernet Adapter card.

[Will.Spencer]

The only interface that SimpleMepis is seeing is the loopback interface.

You'll need to configure your new NVIDIA NIC in SimplyMepis.

Seriously though, you are running SimplyMepis 3.3. The latest release is Mepis 6.0 Beta 5. You will probably be much better doing a clean install of a current version.