with Knoppix 3.2, the internet works fine, previously, I had RedHat 8.0, worked fine...
for some reason, I had trouble with Mandrake 9.2, and now 10.0
anyway, in Knoppix (which works), there aren't any scripts but ipconfig gives the following output:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:B7:5A:11
inet6 addr: fe80::260:97ff:feb7:5a11/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:824 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:277693 (271.1 Kb) TX bytes:756 (756.0 B)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xef00
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4896 (4.7 Kb) TX bytes:4896 (4.7 Kb)