I just got Knoppix 4.0.2 and I have to admit this is my first time with Knoppix.

DHCP isn't an option for me on my system and the static net-config I'm using should work.

What I have:

Host system is a Gateway 2000 M640 Laptop, running WinXP (I know, I know, but it's what I got).
Pentium M
2.13 GHz
1 GIG Ram
100 GIG HD, 70 GIG free

NIC = Broadcom Nextreme Gigabite Ethernet Card

Static IP info

IP = 172.17.65.38
Mask = 255.255.255.192
GW = 172.17.65.1
DNS = servers as provided by ISP

This is a small private network with anywhere from 4 to 7 systems attached to it. DHCP is down since my wife let the grandson play some games on the server :<(.. I haven't gotten back to fixing it, the server that is. So I static IP'd all the systems. I need static IP on my system anyway, for admin purposes to my hdw firewalls/routers both here at home and work.

I also have VMWare installed on this system and it DCHP's within the system to get virtual NIC set ups and runs great with FC 3 and 4. I deleted the virtual Linux OS's to mke sure they weren't interferring

System aslo has a Intel Pro WiFi 2200bg NIC and PCMCIA adapter that I have used with a NIC.

Any ideas as to why the static IP won't work ?

What is really strange was when I set the broadcast to 172.17.65.1 rather than 172.17.65.255. As soon as I set .1 for bc, I could ping the inside interface of the firewall, but if I set it to .255 (as it should be) the system can't see it. I have checked the FW settings, problem is I'm not even able to get to the inside interface on FW using bc .255 and can't get any network access at all.