Hi Emmet,

I am pretty new to Linux and Knoppix as well and am a big fan. Some partial answers to your question. No doubt others can give you more information.

As far as I can tell, 3.6 is the latest worldwide distribution of Knoppix. You can download it from any of many mirror sites. The 3.6 distribution contains ndiswrapper, which is currently needed for most wireless cards. Take a look at the networking forum for instructions on how to do this. Surprisingly easy. The distribution you are using does not contain ndiswrapper and I doubt you can get wireless going using it without a lot of grief, if at all.

3.6 wireless does work., although you have to manually configure each after booting Knoppix from CD. I have not been able to get sticky config files to work in this regard. Still not too onerous and no doubt will be fixed in the future. I use a MS 720 wireless adapter which tells you just how tolerant the linux community is.

There is a german only distribution of Knoppix, called 3.7. Again check the forums if you want to download it. Harder to find, but out there. The cheatcode lang=us at boot time will get you into english. This version has a firewall capability. I am currently playing with it. So far due to my limited knowledge regarding firewalls, I am not able to comment further.

Hope this helps some.

sci_fi