Ok, I have tried this alone and by using this [great] forum but I give-up!
I am using Knoppix as a learning exercise so far and havent played with it much.. apart from this annoying problem, and installing it in the first place

I have a made a dual-boot laptop build (XP and Knoppix 3.3) and when in XP, the machine will get a DHCP address from the ADSL router (its address is 192.168.200.254).

When I boot into knoppix HD install, the card (eth0) comes up but does not obtain an address.
Pump seems to try and do something as it appears in memory after every boot..

If I set the IP details manually, all works well... but as soon as I try DHCP, all fails.. Netcardconfig does not work - always fails..

My /etc/network/interfaces has:
"auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp"
(I added these after installation).

My resolve.conf has
"nameserver 192.168.200.254"
which is what helps me connect to the net when I use manual IP addressing..

ifconfig does not show any ip details, naturally.


Someone, please explain why DHCP is not working for me!!

Thanks in advance guys (and girls?)