ethernet problem

[Harry Kuhman]

Problem solved......Then I started looking for some network
control in the window manager and found
knoppix->network/interface->network interface configure ....
I configured the network card and ran 'route add default gw 192.168.1.1' to map
a route to my router. And then everything worked find.

Bottom line is that when I lost power, I lost my network interface card configuration
and I forgot to reset it.......

Thanks for the update and it's good to know that the problem is resolved. The thing is, I've very confused about what you just said and I would like to uderstand it better to be able to help others or in case I ever run across this myself. You're talking about some sort of setting, apparently to Knoppix, that I've never had to do. And in your very first post you started this whole discussion with

I've been running Knoppix 3.7 from CDROM on my PC for about 2 months. .....

I've always been able to boot the Knoppix CD and it's set itself up by DHCP. We don't need no stinkin' "route add default gw" command. It has worked this way for me on several different computers and on maybe a half dozen different routers. So I'm hard pressed to understand why booting from a Live CD you need this command (and how you even determined that you need it). And why when booting from a live CD you would not do this each time, if you have to do it at all.