Now, I have searched all over these forums and I haven not been able to find something that helps me with my dilema. I'm using the live cd of knoppix 3.9 and I can't seem to access the internet. I ran an lspci and it listed my network card as Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corp. DP83815/816 10/100 MacPhyter PCI Adapter. And i checked on its status and it's sending and recieving packets, but the number sent matches the number recieved EXACTLY, so i think it's just getting back the packets that it sent out. DHCP also fails. I connect to my modem through a switch, and when i boot my laptop in Windows, it works just fine DHCP'ing for an IP address. Any help here would be greatly appreciated.