You guys are right, I omitted to say that it is a hard disk Knoppix install.

I typed netcardconfig and got the dialogs. I assigned the IP addresses manually. The tower PC got 192.168.1.2. I left all the other parameters at their default values.

For the color code I am aware that makers put pretty much any color. I know for sure that my cable is a cross because I bought it specifically for this purpose at a store and I already networked two Windows-Windows PCs together with it.

Harry: I have a question about the private unroutable address. Exactly what in the 192.168.1.2 numbers guarantees it doesn't match some IP address somewhere on the net if I have a dialup modem online with the ethernet between the two PCs on?

PROBLEM: I ping the laptop with "ping 192.168.4" but ping gives no response at all. There is no timeout or unreachable. When I press control-C it says 100% packet loss with many packets that were sent.

Another detail I didn't mention Knoppix seems to think the laptop has two ethernet ports. I am using a PCMCIA card and assume that it's eth1.

I ran the Knoppix terminal server on the laptop. After, I went to linneighborhood, clicked on ADD, but the client was not written. So, I typed the Ip address, put nothing in the group, wrote the tower PC name and clicked OK. (I got an error when I did Querry.)

I did not find the devices icon in konqueror. Where is it?

I suspect something might be wrong because if I run netcardconfig on the client tower PC, with the DHCP, DHCP doesn't work.