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Belkin router owners BEWARE!
Yup, that's why I mentioned it!

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I find it disturbing that a windows security update can also break linux networking, as you discovered. I didn't notice a solution from scanning the many posts from that thread, so what is the solution, is it to reset the NIC EEPROM to factory settings?
Resetting the NIC isn't easy, or more to the point finding out what the factory setting were isn't easy. I did find a utility that claimed to reset the NIC, but since it would modify the EEROM on my notebook NIC and if anything went wrong my notebook would be nearly useless to me, I held off on doing it. If I had a desktop NIC this happened to I would try the fix without a second thought.

I found some commands that would do it, a software reset with the mii-tool program and then a netcardconfig. This was a pain. I also found some cheat codes would help, including starting with the Expert cheat code (also a pain). This was all posted to the forums somewhere, I thought it was to those threads. But if you want to search, look in the forums for mii-tool or mii-tools (the brain cell that remembers which one it is has died). Then around Knoppix 3.3 or 3.4 something else in Knoppix changed and I had to use cheat codes to boot. I ended up needing the combination of noscsi and acpi=off. Together these let the notebook use knoppix again and resolved the nic problem at the same time. A pain, but nothing to do about it as long as I needed the codes to boot. With 3.8.1 I find that I no longer need cheat codes to boot. And I find that the NIC now works without any cheat codes or resetting. Older versions of Knoppix still have the problem with the NIC (all the way back to my original 3.1).