Thanks again markus. I need to do more reading on devfs. From what I'm experiancing I think
that the problem only occurs when i try to boot with the 2.6.6 kernel. And I was primarily using
the 2.4.26 kernel then I got my scroll mouse working in 2.6 and was using that.

I'm putting that here because perhaps this problem always exisited but I didn't see it
because I wasn't using 2.6. While backing up my files today I noticed the k3b is
garbage in 2.6 ( there were error messages a mile long in the console) but k3b
worked fine in 2.4 I have no idea if any of this is related. But there are definately
Problems here. I like knoppix enough that I'll just keep using it with the 2.4 kernel.

P.S. I do remember a message about devfs in 2.6 but dmesg shows nothing in 2.4