Quote Originally Posted by calathar
The reason that I'm using linux now is because (I believe) the boot data was corrupted on my laptop hdd, and I can't boot into windows anymore.
Boy, that doesn't surprise me. I would never dare to run Windows naked that way on a high speed connection with no NAT firewall protection.

Quote Originally Posted by calathar
I know what I should expect from a DHCP configuration, and when I use ifconfig eth1 shows what I would expect................I've never used linux before, so sometimes I'm not sure how to describe things, but I hope this helps. Any more ideas?
Well, if eth1 is showing what you expect it should be showing, that seems to say to me that it did get it's settings by DHCP, and so it must be on the network. Right? Are you sure all of the settings are right? Have you tried the basic simple things like trying to ping an address? You should be able to ping (from a "shell") knoppix.net with the command ping www.knoppix.net . If that doesn't work try ping 216.32.81.146 , which is the same thing with DNS taken out of the picture.

Running a naked high speed connection is just not safe, but at lesast you should be reasonably safe running Linux and a Live CD system.