I know that this was discussed in some length some time ago, but I'm new to this forum and a bit of a linux newbie, so I thought I'd post my problem to see if anyone has come up with any solutions.

I've tried running knoppix (v3.7) on my machine which also runs windows xp with updates! Guess what whenever machine tries to dhcp eth0 it hangs. I can start with nodhcp but that if I try to do netcardconfig on that card it hangs again - as it happens I have two cards in that machine (one is idle) but whichever i use same problem.

My machine is connected to an old box running smoothwall (linux firewall/rooter) there is no problem with dhcp. I tried putting the knoppix disk in the smmothwall box (which also has two nic's but has never run xp) and gues what it was fine.

I've also tried DSL (Damn Small Linux) and that works fine.

So I suspect this is the old M$ screwing eeprom problem - has anyone solved it yet? preferably an easy solution that I can understand!

floi