Quote Originally Posted by javiergarza4
...how the heck would a router help? i got one, and the internet doesnt even half work in knoppix.
A router is a big help. With a router it's the router that takes care of the the connection to the ISP, and does dhcp for the local connections. So you just fire up Knoppix and get a dhcp assignment and can use the Internet (as well as connect to any other local machines).

So you say you have, err, got one, and it doesn't even "half work" "in" knoppix. You might want to ask why that is rather than disparage using a router. I suspect that you are having a problem with DHCP and the router. That's just a guess of course, untill you post some better information, but if it's a Belkin router the chances of it being that just went sky high. The Belkin routers are crap, and don't do proper dhcp handshaking with Knoppix. Don't blame Knoppix, it's not it's fault. It's not likely to be the only problem you would have with a Belkin router, either. I can tell you that both my Linksys and my SMC routers handshake with Knoppix just fine (on my desktop system, and once I get past what a "security update" seems to have done to my notebook network interface by resetting it with a command or a cheat code). And I have DSL, and don't have to do anything to run PPPoE, or log in to my ISP, or make any extra settings in Knoppix at all, I just boot and I'm on the network, thanks to my router.