Sorry for my newbitude, but Knoppix 3.4 (5/10 version) is my first Linux.

Once installed to my harddrive, I either can enjoy mouse (IBM built-in trackpoint) operation on kernel 2.6 veresion or madwifi operation of my atheros 802.11a/b/g pci card on kernel 2.4 version, but not both.

Could someone please help? I'm sorry I've already screwed up an attempted recompile of the kernel using the madwifi drivers, so I clean-installed K3.4 again.

My lspci -v results are below.

Thanks very much,
robert

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0529
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
Capabilities: [e4] #09 [f104]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 96
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: c0100000-c01fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e0000000-e7ffffff
Expansion ROM at 00003000 [disabled] [size=4K]

0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 052d
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1800 [size=32]

0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 052d
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]

0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 052d
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]

0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 052e
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] #0a [2080]

0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=08, sec-latency=168
I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00008fff
Memory behind bridge: c0200000-cfffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e8000000-efffffff

0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 052d
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at 1860 [size=16]
Memory at 30000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 052d
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]

0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0534
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1c00
I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64]
Memory at c0000c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at c0000800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0525
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 2400
I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 052f
Flags: bus master, stepping, fast Back2Back, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

0000:02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev aa)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0532
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at b0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 30400000-307ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 30800000-30bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev aa)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0532
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at b1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Bus: primary=02, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 30c00000-30fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 31000000-313ff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:02:00.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0533
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at c0240000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
Subsystem: IBM PRO/1000 MT Mobile Connection
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at c0220000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Memory at c0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at 8000 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [f0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

0000:02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: Unknown device 17ab:8331
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 11
Memory at c0210000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2