Hello,

I'm newbie to Linux and Knoppix. I've run it from Live CD to install it and get some more experience with this system. But before installation I want internet connection for all help I can get. And that's where the problem starts.

My computer has ASUS K8N motherboard with Nvidia nForce3 250 chipset. It's placed in the network and connects with internet by hub->router. I run network-setup (as normal user and as a root), everything went ok. After that I'm enable to ping other computers in network and in internet, but connection is very slow - so slow, that it was a success when I saw a title of one web page. Also when I try to connect to router via http I get user/password popup from it, but after that it tries to download a page from it so slow as from www. Propably it can be a problem with full duplex on the ethernet card (as it was on win xp) - net works well only when duplex is set to half. But I couldn't change it using either mii-tool and ethtool. Mii-tool says there are no active mii interfaces, ethtool can't get full information from eth0 (only some basic) (I tried also as root) . And I wasn't able to find information about option in which my card is working - is it half or full duplex. With ethtool I wasn't able to findout is my card working as 10Mb or 100Mb. When I run Knoppix from CD on other computers in the net, it behaves very well - I get normal connection to www. Below i present some of my actions. I hope someone will help to solve my problem.
Regards
kuba

NETCARDCONFIG

Code:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.63 up
route add default gw 192.168.0.1
SIOCADDRT: File exists
auto lo eth0
Setting Nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf to 193.110.120.5
Done.


IFCONFIG

Code:
root@ttyp4[knoppix]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:D8:1F:7B:E5
          inet addr:192.168.0.11  Bcast:192.168.0.63  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:195 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:59 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:25453 (24.8 KiB)  TX bytes:5666 (5.5 KiB)
          Interrupt:21 Base address:0x2000

MII-TOOL

Code:
root@ttyp4[knoppix]# mii-tool
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported
no MII interfaces found

ETHTOOL

Code:
root@ttyp2[knoppix]# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
        Supports Wake-on: g
        Wake-on: d
        Link detected: yes
ETHTOOL 2

Code:
root@ttyp2[knoppix]# ethtool -s eth0 \speed 10
Cannot get current device settings: Operation not supported
  not setting speed
root@ttyp2[knoppix]# ethtool -s eth0 \duplex half
Cannot get current device settings: Operation not supported
  not setting duplex