4. It does not necessarily follow that if you fail to get Knoppix to work with your wireless connection you have to go back to M$ -- your choice of course. There are many other fine distributions of Linux that are likely to work -- indeed one comes from your neck of the woods -- MEPIS.

Cheers,

Grant D. Vallance
I tried Mepis on my Dell Inspiron notebook and it seemed ok though it did not let me use my touchpad. However, when I tried it on my home desktop (AMD pc) it took a long time to load and when it was finished would not get into KDE. I might play with it some more later...