Quote Originally Posted by quincannon
.... no idea why it isn't working since i did everything that i found on the boards and other faq.
And we have little idea either, since you are not giving us much information to go on.

Is there any particular reason why you Linksys router is at 192.168.31.81? That hardly a normal setting for a Linksys router.

It is fairly inportant that those trying to help you know what you are connected to. DSL is different than cable, and very different from connecting to a network at school or work that might include more firewalls, proxies and other complications. (although this shouldn't stop you from pinging the router).

It would also help to know about your computer. We know nothing other than it has a Cnet NIC. And tell us as much about your network as you can.

I'm assuming that you are using a Live CD or Live DVD and have not foolishly tried to install Knoppix, but you should confirm that. For that matter, you should confirm that this is Knoppix and not some alternate Knoppix based Live CD, and give the full version number of the release.

It doesn't seem likely that this is the issue, but I should still ask: Did you burn the disc yourself and did you burn it at low speed? Have you run testcd? Did you confirm the md5 checksum before burning the ISO? It would be a shame to waste a lot of effort on a network problem that turns out to be a bad disc.

What are the settings in your Linksys router? Are you doing anything to limit access by MAC address? (Yes, the hardware should have the same MAC address as it has under Windows, but I ask this because it has been seen to be a source of problems.)

You might try making sure that your system gives up it's DHCP lease before shutting XP down. You shouldn't have too, I don't, but I have seen reports that this caused others a problem.

If that doesn't help, try cycling power on the Linksys after shutting down XP (and shut down the computer completely, don't just do a soft reset). The power up the computer and boot right into Knoppix without running XP. You might even want to try resetting the router.

We have seen some DNS issues that were tracked to IP6 support on some ISP, but that doesn't sound like your problem since you say you can't even ping the router.