Quote Originally Posted by megahertzme
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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

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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
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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.

Thanks, Tim.
If I'm understanding this right you never run PPPoE software under the Windows configuration, the DSL modem works like a modem with a DSL router built in. Sounds nice.

With the modem/router at 192.168.1.254, you should always use 192.168.1.255 (assuming a mask of 255.255.255.0) for the broadcast address, nothing else makes sense.

Have you tried sudo mii-tool -r and then netcardconfig after starting knoppix? Have you read through the two threads I started in this forum and tried the other tricks people have given there? I think it's very likely that you are seeing the same problem.

It sounds like the Billion is also doing dhcp for you, so once the NIC starts working under knoppix you should be able to let netcardconfig get it's information that way. You should never need to set a broadcast address, mask, or gateway, and they should all end up set the same as they are under Windows. If you do end up having to set them manually, do that with netcardconfig and use the same values as you originally posted. I did see a Belkin router that wouldn't work with Knoppix via DHCP properly but could be configured with netcardconfig manually, so that could be the issue in your case too. Im surprised that DNS ends up at the same 192.168.1.254 address for you, but the router just passes the requests along to a real DNS server somewhere. If it's working under windows it should work right for other systems too, but you could also manually set a different valid DNS address here. Worry about that later, after you can ping the modem/router (I don't expect it will be an issue after you get ping working). The default gateway will end up pointing at the Billion at 192.168.1.254.

See the my other threads for the reason I think this is happening. Please post back your results.