Dude,

You must have smoked too much of the good stuff because you make little sense.

1) You're using a customized version of Knoppix yet you bitch about it on the Knoppix forum.

2) You 'figured' it would autoinstall? Where did you get that idea?

3) You call Knoppix a POS and crap (twice even) because it won't detect your modem yet you admit that the modem is junk!?

4) You don't even make mention of the Brand/model NIC you bought. How is anyone going to help you without that information?

How about changing your attitude and posting something that's useful instead of bitching and moaning?

Did you even bother to read any of the documentation? I doubt it.