Network card LED goes off on Booting

Hello friends, I am trying to boot Knoppix on my brother's machine, and when I do so, the network LED goes off when the kernel starts probing for hardware. Knoppix boots and I configure networking ( IP is assigned etc ), but cannot ping any other machine on the network. The Ethernel card is det

Evolving Debian from Red Hat

Can apt-get and deb package management system be installed in a Red hat machine?. I am thinking about the possiblity of evolving a GNU/Debian system from a Red Hat system. Is it possible?. Pardon me if I am wrong and ignorant. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un