I too am new to knoppix and linux in general ...and am having the same problems with my Belkin F5D7010 ....as the Laptop boots all go's well till i get to the pcmcia starting up if the card is in the slot the lappy will freeze and it's hold down the power button to fix it (reboots)

I'm getting a error failed to load p80211.o.
module p80211 not found

If the card is out it all loads up everything is good ...till i push the card in then it freezes again.

Any help on this would be great .
Though i am still working on it so i will keep ya posted.

Cheers