Shah

Thanks for the info - but it took me nowhere! I followed your instructions on your refererence post to the letter but the wireless (eth2) is still brought up in DHCP mode - I need it to be in STATIC mode.

FYI - Knoppix says that I have three networking devices, eth0 is the firewire, eth1 is the NIC (Realtek), and eth2 is the wireless (Orinoco/Lucent). I do not have eth0 or eth1 configured. I did at one time but Knoppix brought all three up on bootup, even tho' I use 'no' in the 'onboot = ' line of the config files for eth0 and eth1. You see, I use the wireless network device only.

I have a question for you shah, what would cause 'eth2=eth2' to be removed from /etc/network/ifstate on a boot up? Every time I boot up I see errors saying eth2 is not configured. On login I can add the line,as I stated in my original post. When I do add this line, ifup and ifdown commands begin to work. If I do not add 'eth2=eth2' to the /etc/network/ifstate script, ifup and ifdown will produce a 'device not configured' error message, the same message I see on boot ups. So I can't help but wonder if this script, /etc/network/ifstate, has some bearing on the problem?

This is all guess work on my part but I have to wonder, why is 'eth2=eth2' being removed from /etc/network/ifstate???

Mike