after transferring 100gig to daddies computer from mine {XP} I unplug the cat-5 from daddys and plug it into

a netgear FA-310 plugged into an old motherboard {no agp slot, pci & isa slots} K6-233, 256mb of pc100
boot floppy starts the CD of "Knoppix for Kids" {good educational stuff for the 5year old}

the boot listing finds eth0 and does dchp, normally it has skipped to the next thing with no further mention of networking, and I get no network.

this time it said something happy happened with dchp , but still no network.

the windows machine sees only itself, both lights are on on the hub {netgear FE-104}

linNeighborhood has an entry for "knoppix" that I can get to do nothing whatsoever.

in konsol netcardconfig choosing dchp = 'from device eth0 failed.
letting it choose all those numbers and dchp fails again.

ifconfig = just lo saying RX 10 no problems & TX 10, no problems. 500bytes RX&TX.


sudo mii-tool -r = restarting autonegotiation


netcardconfig = dchp failed


sudo mii-tool = " eth0: no autonegotiation, 100baseTx-HD, link ok


so the hardware seems to be ok


in linNeighborhood I told it about the windows computer name and the workgroup name and a new entry appeared above 'knoppix' the computer name with the workgroup nane as the comment.

I can get the new entry to do nothing too.

I am reading the oreilly online linux networking but I'm just to defining tcp


there's a network here and I can't FIND it.

can you see where it is hiding ?