James,George and "tdjokic",

Got it working! Thank you so much!!!

The problem was I answered " no" each time when netcardconfig asked "Start DHCP broadcast?"

In retrospect I know that was really dumb I know!. I apologize for wasting your time. But your advice and encouragement kept me going when I was about to give up. Thank you so much!

One more request?

Now that the card is being detected is there anything more I need to do to make sure it stays that way? Can I "save" the settings so that Knoppix will be able to detect the ethernet card next time turn on the machine?