I start booting up Knoppix 4.0.2 CD and I get to the part where it is looking at the network devices and this is what is on the screen...



Network Device eth0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP. (Backgrounding)
Network Device eth1 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP._



That's it. It gets hung up there and I have to do a hard, cold reboot. I turned off my router/DSL modem but that still didn't work. I tried 5 times and every time is the same thing.

What can I do to get past this?

I have an Averatec laptop with a Turion processor and 1GB DDR RAM. The bootup sequence is nice and colorful all the way up to that point with the network device. All USB devices, processor, RAM, harddrive, everything is detected.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.