Quote Originally Posted by Mr_Mike
That would probably work if I had the internal wireless card. But I don't.

I haven't had any joy getting anything in the Knoppix menu to work for me. Don't have any specifics I can quote until I get home and try again.
If the PCMCIA knows what it is, the rest *should*(?) go as I described. I also have an antique cisco 340 PCMCIA that is automagically setup. And a Buffalo card that is just a wasted of power when plugging it in to the PCMCIA. The system just ignores it. So you might be in the latter case I think