Quote Originally Posted by ranchhand
I was Googling the web, and ran across a forum where someone posted a problem like mine; another member posted what he did to solve it, and that is where I got the info. .....
It makes so little sense that I'm not inclined to accept that this is the entire story. Linux just doesn't use that unformatted space. Just because someone did something and then something else worked doesn't mean that doing the first thing cause the second thing to work. It certainly is curious that this "fix" seems to have helped you also, but I would really like to see more discussion on this.

Quote Originally Posted by ranchhand
When you boot Knoppix, do you just click Konquerer and it configures itself, or is there a mounting process of some kind?
When you boot Knoppix, Knoquror opens automagically (it's what shows the intro help file). So I just put URLS in to the address bar there and I can surf. Of course, you can start an alternate browser and surf with that.

When I boot, Knoppix configures it's network settings by DHC from my router. This is rather different than configuring Konquror, but may be worth mentioning. If you have cable, with or (foolishly) without a router, Knoppix likely will configure networking by DHCP. If you have DSL and are foolish enough to run without a router then you would need to do some setup and run pppoe software. But I don't advocate this at all, my advice in this case is to get an inexpensive router.

If you problem isn't Knoquror but rather networking then we need more information about your network and Internet connection to be able to help.