I have a router and a cable modem. And yes i'm using a Via RhineII internal ethernet card.

I shut down the cable modem and the router for 5 min. I started the canle modem 1st then waited till the lights stoped flashing then started the router. I ran netcardconfig manually and dhcp and still no internet connection. What is weird id that i can share files with a mac i have on my network.

The following is what i got while running the commands: (let me know if there is anything else i should do)

knoppix@1[knoppix]$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:09:03:FA:A7
inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:9ff:fe03:faa7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:595 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:700 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:72882 (71.1 KiB) TX bytes:54292 (53.0 KiB)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0xd00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:78 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:78 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5616 (5.4 KiB) TX bytes:5616 (5.4 KiB)

knoppix@1[knoppix]$ netcardconfig
Sending DHCP broadcast from device eth0 OK.
auto lo eth0
knoppix@1[knoppix]$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
md5 7680 1
ipv6 238016 6
snd_mixer_oss 18304 0
snd 46820 1 snd_mixer_oss
sis_agp 9988 0
intel_agp 22300 0
efficeon_agp 10144 0
amd64_agp 13640 0
ali_agp 9216 0
autofs4 19076 1
af_packet 24328 0
ntfs 163600 1
via82cxxx_audio 27656 1
uart401 13124 1 via82cxxx_audio
sound 71684 2 via82cxxx_audio,uart401
soundcore 11104 4 snd,via82cxxx_audio,sound
ac97_codec 20236 1 via82cxxx_audio
via_rhine 23172 0
mii 8320 1 via_rhine
via_agp 11392 1
agpgart 31440 6 sis_agp,intel_agp,efficeon_agp,amd64_agp,ali_agp,v ia_agp
i2c_viapro 10512 0
i2c_core 20992 1 i2c_viapro
parport_pc 38724 0
parport 33480 1 parport_pc
8250 42844 0
serial_core 21120 1 8250
joydev 11712 0
tsdev 9664 0
evdev 11008 0
usbhid 42464 0
pcmcia 23696 0
yenta_socket 22152 0
rsrc_nonstatic 14080 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 43268 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
apm 22252 2
rtc 13900 0
unionfs 68088 1
cloop 19232 1
sbp2 24584 0
ohci1394 33460 0
ieee1394 297432 2 sbp2,ohci1394
usb_storage 68544 0
ohci_hcd 21764 0
uhci_hcd 31632 0
usbcore 102492 5 usbhid,usb_storage,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd

Let me know if i'm missing anything