Quote Originally Posted by kwyjibo730
Here's the deal:
When I run netcardconfig if I answer for yes for "Use DHCP Broadcast" I get "failed" as the output. When I answer "no", I need to know which IP to use when it askes for IP Addr. of eth0; should I use 127.0.0.1, my computers internal IP, the router IP, or what. I'm assuming mask should remain the same as in the router settings and the other settings should remain default. Any ideas where these settings might need to be changed/synchronized with the router settings.
I have not used that model Linksys, but have not had problems with Knoppix and other Linksys routers. I'm still wondering what your NIC is and if that's part of the problem.

Do not use 127.0.0.1. That's a local loopback addres for all TCP/IP stacks. The safest thing to use would be the IP addres that is assigned to that system in Windows, likely something in the 192.168.xxx.xxx range. Alternatively, you could select any other address that you knew was available, as long as the first 3 numbers matched what your router uses and you were sure that the fourth number was not in use elsewhere on you network. To be safe I would use an address that the router is not configured to hand out; for example if I let my router hand out IP addresses in the range of 192.168.xxx.100 to 192.168.xxx 200 then I would use 201 or 99 (192.168.xxx.99 to be more exact, where xxx is usually 0, 1 or 2 depending on router).

If it's a NIC problem then the manual netcardconfig may not work as well. If it's really a DHCP issue then you should be able to set in the values manually and find that you are on the Internet.

Not having a background with that particular router I can't tell you if it has a MAC address feature or not or where to find it. I guess I could try to look up the documentation on-line, but I'll leave that to you. Many routers, particularly wireless routers do now have control by MAC address. It's not usually enabled by default, so if you have not turned it on this is not likely to be the problem. But if you have set your MAC addresses into the router and then enabled this feature to keep out wireless hackers, look for it in your router and try disabling it for a quick test.

Let us know your results. It would be nice to resolve this so that you don't have to do the manual netcardconfig each time you boot Knoppix.