Quote Originally Posted by jacksonon
I currently have a DSL connection and tried to configure it using pppoeconf, yet when I did,...
You don't use a router, do you? While you should be able to configure Knoppix to work without one, this and many other problems will just go away if you have a router hooked to the DSL modem and you connect to that. You will just boot and be on the Internet, no Knoppix setup needed at all. And you will have a much safer connection. Windows is particularly vulnerable to attacks if you are on the Internet without the hardware filewall a router offers (it has been reported that the average system without a hardware fireewall is compromised within 4 minutes of being placed on a high speed connection!) but this is a growing threat for Linux too.

Routers are dirt cheap now. My little wired Linksys was about $150 when it first came oyt, I paid over $100 for it, but you can now buy many routers for $10 or less after rebate, some with wireless capability. CompUSA even had one for $2.99 this week!