Quote Originally Posted by Cambo105
Connecting to the network using windows is much easier, I connect the ethernet cable and windows recognizes the network and then I just have to click on connect, no messing with IP address and the like.
That's likely being done by DHCP, which I mentioned in the first post. Are you sure that Knoppix isn't connected also (which I also mentioned)? If it is not, the next step is to determine why. Post the results if the command ifconfig and we can start from there.