Why does knoppix work and others???

Why is it a crap shoot when trying to get an
installation to see stuff, especially the internet?

I just installed slak 10 twice and yes, it finds the
eth0 card, but fails to set it up!!

The following is a 'flappy' saved from knoppix and
slaking slak!!

Now, what do I do???? Probably simple, just don't know
what/where/when/how!! (all those good adjectives per
my high school english teacher...believe it or not,
yes, I did graduate!!))

knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
00:40:F4:8C:03:0D
          inet addr:192.168.0.2  Bcast:192.168.0.255 
Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::240:f4ff:fe8c:30d/64
Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 
Metric:1
          RX packets:546 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
          TX packets:568 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:417113 (407.3 KiB)  TX bytes:115658
(112.9 KiB)
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0xa000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:400 (400.0 b)  TX bytes:400 (400.0
b)

    
    
From Slak
ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
00:40:F4:8C:03:0D

(not setting up the 'inet' ports, whatever here)

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3752 (3.6 Kb)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1000

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Cyclists should expect and demand safe
accommodation on our public roads,
just as does every other user.

Nothing more is expected.

Nothing less is acceptable!


        
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