I have posted this under other catagories with no conclusion yet. I have tried googling and reading almost any forums that have anything alike with the topic and still nothing. I am somewhat new to linux.
I have been messing with this issue for awhile now. I am using Knoppix 3.4 and when I boot get a black screen which does nothing. If I use a cheat (knoppix acpi=off noscsi) it will load but only to this stage:

PCMCIA Found, starting cardmgr.

cardmgr[82] starting, version is 3.2.5
cardmgr[82] socket 0: Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter
cardmgr[82] executing: 'modprobe hermes'
cardmgr[82] executing: 'modprobe orinoco'
cardmgr[82] executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs'

As soon as "PCMCIA Found, starting cardmgr." shows a loud beep sound is heard.
I am using a Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card. If I use the "knoppix26 acpi=off noscsi" with the card not in the machine it will load up fine, but want to be able to use my wireless card. I have had same problem with the Orinoco loadup using knoppix 3.3 but not the blank screen nor the slow loading.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Computer is Presario 2195US