OK I'm starting to go crazy now. I re-installed knoppix (that was the only way I could figure out how to get it recognizing eth0 again), and once again tried to set the WEP key so I can use encryption. Once again I used >KNOPPIX>Network/Internet>Wavelan Configuration and it brings up wlcardconfig and I went through it again, naming the ESSID, setting mode to "auto" and entering the WEP key. Once again it works fine as soon as I turn the encryption back on; I can get online. This time I opened a terminal, su to root and type pump -i eth0 thinking that this will save the settings for after reboot. I read to do it that way somewhere. (can you tell that I'm new at this?
) I reboot and....NOTHING!!!!! egad I am getting frustrated.