Knoppix windows Network

[Harry Kuhman]

(via two Ethernet cards - Both LEDs are lit, so cable OK)

I have no idea if this is a correct statement. Are you using a cross over cable or a normal straight through cable? This will not work without a cross over cable unless you have at least one special auto-sensing NIC, which most computers do not have and since you didn't post the NIC make I have to assume you don't have either.

The command "Netcardconfig" with DHCP gives "operation failed. Failed."

Well, duh, since there is no DHCP server. (By the way, all of your problems would go away if you considered my generic advice #4. Under $10 AR this week at CompUSA (yea, I know, not much help if your name is Pierre, but I expect you can find similar deals)).

I tryed: "ifconfig eth0 169.254.97.210 netmask 255.255.0.0" because IP adresse from windows PC is 169.254.97.211 (configurated in automatic mode)

And then, in Konqueror: smb://169.254.97.211/
Result: "Internal error"

That 169 address was your IP address when your windows box was connected to the Internet, but you should not be using it and certainly not making up other addresses in that range when hooking up two local computers.

You windows box may not even have that configuration if it has been rebooted, and if not it may still want to talk to the Internet that it has been disconnected from. (and I'm assuming here that the windows box has only one NIC and that you did disconnect it from the Internet to do this). My advice is to reboot both systems and assign IP addresses in the 10.xxx.xxx.xxx range or the 192.168.xxx.xxx range (but not one of each) and proper net masks, as long as you know that the cable is a good cross over cable (use Google for wiring info). My best advice is still answer #4, all of this will happen automagically for you by DHCP, and regular network cables will work. There is a lot of extra utility as well.