I tried posting this in networking, but have had no response in days .

I can't for the life of me get internet connectivity in Knoppix, and I'm wondering if any experts here can guide me.

I use a static IP address through a router at 192.168.0.1, I have set up my nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf too (but that isnt the problem).

Knoppix seems to detect my network card (natsemi driver), and I know it works fine in linux as I use slackware on this machine, and previously many other distros.

I set up ifconfig manually and added the default gateway with route, but if I use the network card config program, it's still the same.

I have tried connecting directly to another computer on my LAN (to bypass the need for a nameserver to be working) and its the same, nothing happens, at all.

Heres the output. I noticed there are a lot of errors on sent packets (and none transmitted properly).


root@ttyp0[/]# ifconfig && route
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:E3:18:7D4
inet addr:192.168.0.16 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:713 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:745 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:745
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:43162 (42.1 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:54 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:54 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3852 (3.7 KiB) TX bytes:3852 (3.7 KiB)

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

Thanks.

EDIT : I'll add that I've tried Knoppix STD and an older version too, and its still the same. It works perfectly on my other system.