Hi there. My first post here, and I know this is a sticky one. At least it looks like.

After a semi-hdd-death I'm running knoppix live cd, which I always could connect the internet on my laptop with no problem.
I have a Dell e520, with Intel 825xx 10/100 NIC, and cannot connect to the internet when using knoppix.

The setup is <motorola cable modem> - <d-link di-524 router> - <ethernet cable> - <dimension e520 with Intel card>.

I tried almost everything that looked like it could help me with this issue, but no success.

When I enter lspci, the important info is:
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 104c (rev 02)

lspci -x
Code:
00: 86 80 4c 10 07 01 10 00 02 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 
10: 00 00 fe df 00 b0 fd df c1 ec 00 00 00 00 00 00 
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 10 dd 01 
30: 00 00 00 00 c8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 00 00
If I run netcardconfig I get No supported network cards found..

I even downloaded the driver from Intel's website, but got lost trying to install it. .tar.gz is too much for me right now.

edit

ifconfig

Code:
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:319 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:319 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1594696 (1.5 MiB)  TX bytes 1594695 (1.5 MiB)

I've downloaded and extracted the drivers from an Intel website, and after the 'make install' command, it gives me:

Code:
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17/build SUBDIRS=/media/sdc/e1000-0.0.16/src modules
make[1]: Entering directory 'UNIONFS/usr/src/linux-2.6.17'
Makefile:266: UNIONFS/usr/src/linux-2.6.17/scripts/Kbuild.includes: No such file or directory
Makefile:486: UNIONFS/usr/src/linux-2.6.17arch/i386/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target UNIONFS/usr/src/linux-2.6.17/arch/i386/Makefile'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory 'UNIONFS/usr/src/linux-2.6.17'
make: *** [default] Error 2

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Any help? I'm losing my mind over here.

Thanks in advance.