Hello all, here's come another network newbie question... I've just installed Knoppix on a hard drive, so essentially it is Debian. I've did my homework and tried to read previous posts; but no luck. I have a dual boot system, Windows XP boots and loads network parameters with no problems, it automatically obtains all the network values from my cable modem. Knoppix, on the the other hand, is being a bit of a pill. I like the idea that its debian and I like the distro. Think the drivers are being loaded correctly (sis900), but i'm not entirely sure. So here's my "ifconfig eth0"
Code:
root@chad:/home/knoppix# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:CA:49:8E:68
          BROADCAST PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1324 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:82646 (80.7 KiB)  TX bytes:3420 (3.3 KiB)
          Interrupt:19 Base address:0xec0
what does PROMISC MULTICAST means?

... and output from "lsmod"

Code:
root@chad:/home/knoppix# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
autofs4                 8756   0  (unused)
af_packet              13448   0
nls_iso8859-1           2844   1
ntfs                   51168   1
msdos                   4652   0  (unused)
agpgart                38296   0  (unused)
i810_audio             25064   0
ac97_codec             11884   0  [i810_audio]
soundcore               3428   2  [i810_audio]
sis900                 12428   0
crc32                   2816   0  [sis900]
serial                 51972   0
keybdev                 1696   0  (unused)
hid                    21380   0  (unused)
mousedev                3832   0  (unused)
input                   3168   0  [keybdev hid mousedev]
usb-ohci               18184   0  (unused)
usbcore                57472   0  [hid usb-ohci]
apm                     9768   1
rtc                     6908   0
and here's my "interfaces" file
Code:
root@chad:/home/knoppix# cat /etc/network/interfaces
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)

# The loopback interface
# automatically added when upgrading
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
please help....