I am desperate!!! Can someone help, please? This is my story:
I have a ECS Desknote 901, and it works fine under win(2k or XP). I am trying to get to know the Linux world and the concept of Live CD Linux got my attention. I found out that the Knoppix is the best of them so I decided to give it a try. I booted the machine, all of my HW (except my modem) was identified, but the NIC was not working. It is a Realtek 8139, the driver is loaded, but I could not do anything (DHCP failed, tried manual address, same thing). I have tried all the cheatcodes, tips and tricks found on this forum and the NIC will not work. I have decided to try the modem. Luckily, I made it, but only after switching off my sound from BOIS and installing the PCTel divers. Unfortunaltely, I need the NIC more then the modem. Is there any solution to my problem, preferably not involving kernel modifications, since I only have the Live CD, and I don't have any space on my HDD to make a HDD install.

Here is the output of lspci -v with the sound on:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630 Host (rev 31)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [c0] AGP version 2.0

00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS5513 EIDE Controller (A,B step)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 16
I/O ports at ff00 [size=16]

00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at dffd0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:01.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Onboard USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at dffe0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02)
Subsystem: Alpha-Top Corp: Unknown device b901
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
Memory at dfff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:01.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Intel 537 [56k Winmodem] (rev a0) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
Subsystem: Alpha-Top Corp: Unknown device b901
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
I/O ports at d800 [size=128]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: dfe00000-dfefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: cfc00000-dfcfffff

00:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Alpha-Top Corp: Unknown device b901
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at dffc0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS630 GUI Accelerator+3D (rev 31) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Alpha-Top Corp: Unknown device b901
Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel
BIST result: 00
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at dfee0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
I/O ports at ac80 [size=128]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 2.0

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and here is the same with the sound off

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630 Host (rev 31)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [c0] AGP version 2.0

00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS5513 EIDE Controller (A,B step)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 16
I/O ports at ff00 [size=16]

00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at dffe0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:01.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Onboard USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at dfff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:01.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Intel 537 [56k Winmodem] (rev a0) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
Subsystem: Alpha-Top Corp: Unknown device b901
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
I/O ports at d800 [size=128]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff
Memory behind bridge: dfe00000-dfefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: cfc00000-dfcfffff

00:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Alpha-Top Corp: Unknown device b901
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
Memory at dffc0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS630 GUI Accelerator+3D (rev 31) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Alpha-Top Corp: Unknown device b901
Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel
BIST result: 00
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at dfee0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
I/O ports at bc80 [size=128]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 2.0

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I even tried to disable the modem too, since it has the same IRQ with the NIC, but no luck.

Please help!

Anastas