Hi,

I'm trying to use an ethernet connection on Compaq Desktop with Realtek RTL8139/810x NIC to
fairly recent Linksys router at 192.168.15.1. This setup has been working fine with my XP
machine, which uses a static address of 192.168.15.6. Knoppix 5.5.1 on DVD from the book
"Knoppix Hacks" (I'm a NEWBIE to Linuxes). Tried a downloaded CD with this same problem:
After boot, there is no access to network, not even to ping the router. This DVD on my
Dell laptop auto-configures wired and wireless adapters just fine, but I need it up on
my Compaq.

Should mention that During boot of DVD, I saw a message fly by that said eth0 was detected.
But cannot ping router.

So, re-try to specify DHCP via Knoppix Network Card
Configuration and said 'yes' to DHCP. Here is output:

Sending DHCP broadcast from device eth0
------------ pause ------------
Sending DHCP broadcast from device eth0Operation failed.
Failed.
Hit return to exit.
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(exit and went into Network Settings UI, "The interface eth0 is not active".
configured basic STATIC settings, exactly like I run on XP, but not DNSes yet
this time. Click Activate button and then OK.)

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(go into Terminal and get ifconfig report):

knoppix@Knoppix:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:41A:E1:E6
inet addr:192.168.15.6 Bcast:192.168.15.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::217:31ff:feda:e1c6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0x2000

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:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4408 (4.3 KiB) TX bytes:4408 (4.3 KiB)

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(from Terminal window try to ping Linksys router):
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ ping 192.168.15.1
PING 192.168.15.1 (192.168.15.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.15.6 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.15.6 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.15.6 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.15.6 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.15.6 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.15.6 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable

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These are the same settings that I run in XP. Please tell me I'm
missing something simple (like starting the network or something).

And here is the output of lspci -v:

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00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 2a30
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at <ignored> (64-bit, non-prefetchable)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 99
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=68
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: fde00000-fdefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f7ffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:11.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI 437A Serial ATA Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 2a30
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
I/O ports at ff00 [size=8]
I/O ports at fe00 [size=4]
I/O ports at fd00 [size=8]
I/O ports at fc00 [size=4]
I/O ports at fb00 [size=16]
Memory at fe02f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Expansion ROM at fdf80000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI 4379 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 2a30
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
I/O ports at fa00 [size=8]
I/O ports at f900 [size=4]
I/O ports at f800 [size=8]
I/O ports at f700 [size=4]
I/O ports at f600 [size=16]
Memory at fe02e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 2a30
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at fe02d000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 2a30
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at fe02c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 2a30
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at fe02b000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 81)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 2a30
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
I/O ports at 0b00 [size=16]
Memory at fe02a000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI (rev 80) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 2a30
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at f400 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 2a3c
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at fe024000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 2a30
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: fdd00000-fddfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fdc00000-fdcfffff

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 2a30
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 7
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
Memory at fdef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fde00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 2a30
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
Memory at fddff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

02:04.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem
Subsystem: Conexant Unknown device 200c
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 255
Memory at fdde0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at df00 [size=8]
Capabilities: <access denied>
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Many thanks for any assistance on how to get this network connection going, sorry for the long post.
--buzz