Shah,

Thanks for letting me know the value of /etc/network/ifstate. Here is the contents of my /etc/network/interfaces script:


<beginning of script>

# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup, ifdown
# The loopback interface
# automatically added when upgrading
auto lo eth2
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth2 inet static
address 192.168.1.210
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1

<end of script>


As you can see, eth2 is already set to use a static IP.

Shah, I have another guess (the only word that applies here) - could Knoppix be looking for a hardwired connection for it's networking device, and not finding one, goes off on a bender and thus gets the network devices configs confused? eth0 and eth1 are NOT configured and things got worse when they were configured...

Another thing, I have enabled syslogd but I cannot find the boot up screen dump! I have looked in /var/log/kern.log, syslog, lastlog, messages, lastlog, faillog, dmesg, etc, etc, etc and still haven't been able to find the boot up error messgaes. I went through them again yesterday and search for any 'failed', 'error' etc and came up with empty as far as the NICs are concerned, and yet I can see 'device not configured' concerning the wireless (eth2).

Shah, I have been chasing this little problem since v-3.4 and still haven't figured it out. Since I'm barely above a noobee, I don't think I ever will. But I will keep on trying to figure it out with the help of people like you. Thanks again...

Mike