Quote Originally Posted by Davetron
If I install another network card will Windows98 (with security patch installed already) overwrite the eeprom again or would this be a workable solution to get Knoppix up and dialing again?
Wish I could give you a good answer. Can't, but I would like to make a few suggestions. When you do install the network card, boot into Knoppix before you ever run Windows. At least that way you'll have a good baseline and know for sure that Knoppix works with that NIC in it's normal form. You might also want to have downloaded and compiled the tools from http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html so that you can run them and record your eeprom (both to confirm it changes if it indeed does, and so that you have a record of what it should be to restore it). Of course, you can download from Windows and then compile with Knoppix on the current system before you install the new NIC.

And please report back here what happens. My expectation is that the NIC will not get changed again (unless you install some new update). I don't have any experience with any NIC problems under Win98, but then again I've never installed any of the updates either. Wish I had done the same for WinXp and my notebook.

By the way, for anyone in the U.S. seeing this problem on a desktop, you can get a free NIC (after rebate) at OfficeMax this week. Might make it a good time to put in a NIC that will boot Knoppix correctly.