There’s a linksys cardbus(?) on the broken computer. When Puppy is run, the cardbus doesn’t light up, and no internet connection is detected. By coincidence, the machine that I booted Puppy with had a Linksys Ethernet board in it. If you would like to, you can look under the setup icon (or the setup menu choice) and find networking, and from there is a detection/setup area.
Where? The two option in Network Setup are load driver in the Driver Modules section, and in the Interfaces section, the button is eth0. However, when eth0 is selected, the options are to: test eth0; auto DHCP; and static IP. There isn't a wireless option (which there is when trying on
this computer, which also has a linksys ethernet board (it also had the option of ath0 along with eth0, and ath0 was the one with the wireless option). When Windows worked on the broken computer, the card lit up and worked. Now it doesn't. Do the drivers have to be installed first, and then the computer restarted so that the card can light up and be detected (since it ordinarily lights up during the start up)?
And MEPIS won't download; it keeps stating that the operation timed out.