Quote Originally Posted by crazyj23
....it's interesting you mention the acpi=off switch, my bios has acpi disabled.... and would the noscsi switch as mentioned in the other thread affect my pci SATA controller? ...
It's interesting that you focus on these two switches. My notebook originally worked with Knoppix and it's network connection just fine. Stopped after a "security update", even with the very same Live CD. I came up with a few work-arounds, mainly resetting the card with mii-tool and then doing another netcardconfig. But around version 3.4 of Knoppix my system stopped booting completely (Knoppix got more agressive in it's startup code, defaulting to things like dma on). I finally found that I needed to use two cheat codes to get my system to boot, acpi=off and noscsi together. Although this seemed to have nothing to do with the network, I found that the nic would work when I used these two codes. As to how these affect your computer, I have no idea and could only guess. The best thing to do would be to try and see.