Hi, I am having a problem setting up my network in Knoppix 3.2. I am unable to ping my modem or connect to the internet.

I have a Belkin F5D5000 PCI Network Card Connected to a Billion BIPAC-711 CE DSL Modem/Router. The Billion operates on address 192.168.1.254, and handles the PPPoE login to my ISP.

Under Win98SE, I can access my modem perfectly with the following static setup:
DNS: 192.168.1.254
Gateway: 192.168.1.254
IP Address: 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

Using LindowsCD (Lindows4.0 Live CD) I have also been able to connect to the internet and ping the modem. Under Lindows, the NIC driver used was Realtek RTL 8139/8139C/8139C+. Using thte Route command gave the following response:
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags ..... Interface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U Eth0
default 192.168.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG Eth0

However when I use Knoppix, I have set up the LAN settings using the same settings as for Win98, and have tried various "broadcast address" of 192.168.1.255 (the default), 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.254
Using the PPPoE configuration tool, and selecting No to manually pick the drivers I can see the the following drivers are installed:
-Realtek RTL 8139
-Winbond W89c840 PCI Ethernet support

Thinking the Winbond thingy might be causing a problem, I tried to remove it but Knoppix wont let me.

I can't even ping my modem (192.168.1.254) in Knoppix, let alone access the internet. I can of course ping 192.168.1.1.

I have tried some of the suggestions in this forum but to now avail. Can somebody help, I would rather use Knoppix than Lindows, you can save your settings in that. And Win98 is due for retirement!

Thanks, Tim.