Quote Originally Posted by tacobueno
....acquired an IP just fine from both my modem and my router so I don't believe they are at fault, but I have also tried 2 other NIC pci cards on the soyo system and neither of them worked either. I have tried manually entering in the IPs in multiple variations ....
The modem's certainly not an issue, since Knoppix will talk to the router and it will deal with the modem.

Since you're showing a MAC address, I rather think Knoppix does see the NIC and have support for it. Of course, if you are using an old version of Knoppix that may have come out even before the motherboard, all bets are off, but if you are on the current release then lets move on and see if we can't get it working.

I'm not real happy about that "miultiple variations" comment above. Rather than multiple variations, it would be better to try the correct variation. Why not give us more details about what you are trying and see if we can't give you the right settings?

I don't have any first hand experience with your particular router. But look at it's setup and see if there is any feature that is limiting access by MAC address and if so turn this off. I don't really expect this to be the problem, but it is worth ruling out. And yes, at least for now I mean disable the "feature", adding the NIC to the table may not be enough.