Quote Originally Posted by Pavilion
the problem is that it doesn't detect my network card....

and it doesn't even wanna start the ifconfig...

And I'm not sure since I don't know what is DHCP or static address?

Help rem n00b!
In that case it is more of a hardware question. What type model of card then. You could try in the console lspci -v to see if the card is detected or dmesg | less to see the boot messages one page at a time look for references to eth0 or even better post the output here. To get a file you can save to floppy just lspci -v > /ramdisk/home/knoppix/lspci.txt to save the output to the file in the knoppix home directory.

Static address is when you have to enter the settings, ie your IP Netmask manually DHCP gets it's settings at boot from your connection to your ISP.