Quote Originally Posted by mzilikazi
What does ifconfig -a tell you? Does the box even see eth0? If so does it have an i.p. address? If it has an i.p. can you ping inside your LAN? Outside?
Thanks for the reply.

Yes, the interface comes up, but it comes up the "generic" IP address of 169.254.103.69. Otherwise gateway, mask, etc., appear to be set correctly (it would hurt my head to try to type the whole thing out between KVM'd boxes :P)

My internal network is 192.168.1.0, and the static ip for this box is supposed to be 192.168.1.200. When Knoppix boots from CD, it finds my router and gets the next DHCP address. When I boot from the hard disk, it doesn't find the network whether set for static or dhcp.

It's really puzzling. It's a brand new build, so I could reinstall without losing any work, but I would really prefer to figure it out in case it happens again. Are there some magical configuration steps that Knoppix goes through in an HD install boot? I tried editing a couple of things in knoppix-autoconfig (disabling pump) from something I saw here, but that didn't help.

I get the message:

SIOCDELRT: No such process

when I try to do things with the interface or with route. I've searched on this a lot and found lots of things to try, but so far it has kept me stumped.