Quote Originally Posted by Li Gwai Lo
BTW, Knoppix now *usually* comes up without a problem on the SECOND try. It seems like it always fails on the first bootup, then a shutdown and reboot will allow it to initialize the network card correctly so that it can talk to the world.
Have you always been running windos in between ?
Some people over here suspect that a service pack issued by M$ adds code that intentionally messes up the EEPROM of some network cards while shutting down:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2164