Quote Originally Posted by blwilk
....5.0.1 which does not work although I can bring up the setup screen with a wireless connection. It does sort of work with a hard wire connection in that I can ping sites by name so the DNS appears to be working but I cannot load data into the browser. .....
This really sounds to me like a ipv6 issue. I know that there is an Iceweasel issue with IPv6 (you didn't say which browser). You may want to do a bit of searching and determine how to disable IPv6 in Iceweasel (Linux speak for Firefox) and try that. Can you do these remote server pings by wifi or just by a wired connection? I'm not clear what you mean by "setup screen with a wireless connection", I can bring up all kinds of setup crap for wifi in 5.x, but I can never get it to work. I thought that you were getting to the router's setup page (the HTML page that you see in a browser at address 192.168.2.1 ).

Quote Originally Posted by blwilk
5.1.1 which behaves the same as 5.0.1 with the wireless connection but will not work at all with the wired connection. I can't even get an address assigned.
So are you getting to the Belkin setup page at 192.168.2.1 or not? If not you are in the same boat as many other users who can't get wifi working with 5.x. If you are seeing the Belkin setup page then you have wifi working, which stll leaves the potential ipv6 issues and just maybe some sort of filtering happening at the router. It seems strange that support for your wired nic would be in all of the older versions that you mention but not this version, but I can see how that might happen. I haven't been very impressed by the newer versions of Knoppix for several other reasons, but it's still a good tool for what it does have.