I've been running Knoppix 3.7 from CDROM on my
PC for about 2 months. Things were running fine until
last week when the power when out. When I rebooted the
PC, there was no connectivity to the network. When
I ran ping, I got the error message: "Network cannot be reached".

My configuration on the my network looks something like this:

phone line --> DSL modem
--> ethernet --> router
--> ethernet --> PC


I've been assuming that the problem is with the ethernet
hardware interface, because when the PC boots up, the
ethernet looks like it starts ok as the log messages scroll by.

When I called the manufacturer, the tech support guy said
I need to check that the driver is installed ok. My understanding
is that Knoppix detects the ethernet interface at boot time and
automatically loads the driver. And if the driver was ok
on prior boots, it should be ok now.

Am I correct? Is there anything else I can do to isolate this
to hardware, or to software?

Jim Anderson