I used to use knoppix on my old Compaq Presario 1200, I bought a new Athlon 2600+ 512 Mb. 120 Gb. nForce2 chipset CD-RW/DVD and... Oh boy!!! I read nForce2 has problems with Knoppix 3.3 well... When Knoppix 3.4 see the light I noticed that a new module called "forcedeth" comes with that and I tried to make it work, without results so I quit Knoppix for a while (with sadness) and used only windoze xp (with all the security updates ) Last week I decided to install again Knoppix (version 3.6 now), so I installed a new NIC (realtek 8139 family) and I don't have internet connection neither!!! I read a lot of posts about this topic and do several possible solutions posted there, and they didn't work.
I read all the comments posted by Harry Kuhman and chwdgr about "Evidence WinXP 'security updates' may break Linux" and my feelings are: and I want to ki// f u c k i n g uncle Bill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to use my knoppix with freedom, I want to choose with what OS start my computer!!!!!
This post is not only to express my intense dislike, I also need help with that and, since the posts about "winxp security updates that brokes NICs in linux" was posted last year, I want to know if there are any news about this topic. Actually, my NIC is not working...
I think it's really important to know all the truth about it, 'cause if it's truth we have the obligation to say linux people that it's very important to not install windoze in their computers 'cause it could make not work their NICs (almost).