Harry,

the OSes running here on this machine are: Windows XP, Linux (SuSE 9.0) and (maybe) Debian via Knoppix 3.8.1.

I have 2 network cards on this machine: one connects to the hub and then to the other 2 machines. The other connects to the DSL-modem. This is working for XP and SuSE and I try to make it work for Debian/Knoppix.

The advantage of this approach is that I can simply change the harddisk and nothing else.

In the near future I want to add a WLAN-card which I already own. I also have a router to connect via WLAN to this router and then to the internet. The reason I'm looking for Debian is that there is no driver for my WLAN-card for Linux so I have to use the ndis-wraper delivered with Knoppix.

And not to forget: even if I use a router as you suggested I still have the problem that I do not have a network after booting my machine. I have to configure it manually after every boot (not needed with the SuSE-version).
So my question still is: where do I have to look at? At SuSE these things look diferrent, at least I didn't find the file /etc/network/interfaces .

AugustQ