I have a fairly new install of Knoppix/Debian and it worked fine. I hauled it to work, connected it to our T1 line via the motherboard 100mb ethernet and did an apt-get upgrade so as to have everything up to date.

Brought it home and set up the modem, and that worked fine also. Actually did some apt-getting even though I am on a slow dialup. Then I installed my 1000mb Linksys ethernet card, which took some doing.

Now, my modem will still dial out, handshake and connect, but I get nothing but timeouts when I try to ping or start up the browser. From the activity of the lites on the ethernet switch, it is obvious that, although it dialed out and connected via the modem, it tries to communicate via the lan. The ethernet install has obviously repointed my route(s) somehow, even though a route -n command when connected shows the following...

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
nas40.2ar1.Leve * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default nas40.2ar1.Leve 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0

I have tried every routing table entry that I can find to change (except the right one, obviously) - no luck. Even went back to an old yellowed copy of PPP setup that I used years ago before Red Hat made it so easy. (Use it or lose it).

I feel that if I uninstall both the ethernet and ppp, and just reinstall ppp it will work, but after the hell of finally getting the high speed ethernet to work with no help from the manufacturer, I want to leave that for last.

Hints, anyone?

CptKrf