I have been trying to figure out how to setup my dsl with Knoppix; because I am a newbie so I am about to go "NUTSO". I did the ipconfig/all on the Windows side and it gave me some this infomation. Host Name:xxxx primary DNS Suffix: Node Type: Broadcast IP Routing Enabled: Yes WINS Proxy enabled:Yes Controller: Physical add:xxx-xxx DHCP ENabled: Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled: yes IP Add:xxx.xx.x.xx subnet mask: 255.255.0.0 Default gateway: 172.xx.x.254 DHCP Server:172.xx.x.254 DNS Servers: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xxx.xx.xxx.xxx I did a netstat on the knoppix side and it brought up some things that said connected. I did a route but , I don't truly understand how to do this in the "Root" ; all I typed was route and it brought up something with addresses. I have the linux book 4th edition would this help me on setting up my DSL for linux.. Note: I also did it this time with "dhcp" but, I don't know if I'm following the steps right because I still click on the "Google" icon and it still won't connect me to what ever address I put in. I tried also to do ping my "IP Address number" and this worked but when I put in ping goggle.com or even ping www.google.com nothing happend.

I'm not familiar with setting up DSL. What does it require? When I want network running I only set up IP, netmask, gateway, and dns.

I figured out how to set it up; now I can figure out why I have to keep entering the information again. Why is this? I want it to keep the infomation stored for my DSL connection.

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Original post by alexus3 I figured out how to set it up; now I can figure out why I have to keep entering the information again. Why is this? I want it to keep the infomation stored for my DSL connection.

You can't...assuming you're using the LiveCD version [they have a HDD install method, but this is really unstable]. In order to save this information, you'd have to install Knoppix (more preferably a real Linux version that's ment for this] onto your HD, then you can save. This is because you cannot save anything to a boot-disc.

Yeah, you cannot have the setting stored on your hdd. Only if you backed up the config files, but still you have to use them after Knoppix has booted up. You should realy choose one of the many distros.