Quote Originally Posted by kenny
It must be a bug of knoppix, hope it will be fixed in the next version.
Don't be so sure it's a bug in Knoppix - I have a different NIC (one built into a laptop), but had a problem that sounds the same as yours. knoppix noapic also solves my problem. But here's the kicker - the same Knoppix CDR (written and finalized) used to boot and work on the network fine on the same computer! And I'm also running XP on the system as you are. And as far as I can tell, the eeprom settings in the NIC have been changed.

At least we have a work-around. And maybe a future version will be able to always set up the NIC properly, no matter what the eeprom tells it.