I just burned a new copy of Knoppix 3.7, and have gotten the laptop to successfully boot into it (although it was very slow to load the kernel). I am impresed btw with all of the improvements that I see in it already over the old 3.3 version (last one that I had used).


I noticed a utility there to view an NTFS partition, however it requires authentic winows drivers. I obviously can't get them off off of the drive however, and downloading brings me to a second issue. Knoppix apparently doesn't recognize the notebook's wireless NIC - the Dell TrueMobile 802.11a/b card I believe - so I've got no net access. I'm goign to try plugging it directly into the router and see if I can get net working that way, although I'll have to unplug my desktop in order to do so (I unfortunately don't have any extra ethernet cables handy)

I tried accessing qtparted (as root) to see what partitions the system can see, however the program just freezes/hangs. Opening outside of root gives the "no device found" message, so I'm guessing this freezing means that it isn't able to access the drive.

Any other ideas on what I can try? Or is this a hopeless endeavor