Hi... Someone out there willing to help me ? I 've browsed this forum and a lot others to find a solution... in vain.

I 'm a linux newbie, but liked to convince myself that it 's just better than Windows... Having a difficult time with it. I Installed Fedora, that was a nice smooth install, had internet acces and lan immediately.
But... It ran significantly slower than knoppix. (200MMX 150MB ram)

So... I installed knoppix to my harddisk, but I can 't get my internet connection nor lan to work. I connect to a W2K pc via a cross over cable, same thing under fedora did the trick...

Some things I already tried:
  • knoppix=noapci at boot didn 't help
    pump -i fails (whatever that means)
    lspci does list my ethernetcard (RTL 8139/...C/...C+) rev10
    lsmod doesn 't list 8139too (which I think is the driver for that card ???)
    when used modprobe 8139too, lsmod lists it, with a 0 next to it...
    netcardconfig fails to send dhcp
    the lisa network wizard can 't find a network interface
    ifconfig -a returns almost everywhere a 0 except for txqueuelen: 1000


If someone can help me with this one, I'll be able to continue exploring linux... A nice tutorial about what modules are, how to load them, how drivers are used in linux etc.. would be nice too... I 'm willing to do the work myself, but am really stuck rightnow !