As long as knoppix detects the network card, and you can somehow figure out wether the school is using dhcp or static ip's for the network, you can do the following:
for static ip, do this: Code: su -
ifconfig eth0 address <ip address>
the ifconfig command basicially assigns ips and other stuff for the card, it has many more options which can be found under its man pages.
for dhcp do ths: this command will query the dhcp server and grab an ip address for the computer.
now with that done, just entering ifconfig eth0 should show a valid ip address in the address field. Now just ping google to see if it works, and thats all there is to it.
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