Quote Originally Posted by sazeile
Eon,

Thanks for the reply. I did some experiments with a couple of different versions of Knoppix. Here's the results:

Knoppix 3.9

Video - Thinks monitor is a Compaq 1445 instead of a 7500 but works OK.
USB Hard Drives - Works OK.
USB Printer - Does Not Detect.
USB Scanner - Works OK.
FW CD/DVD - Detects and creats desktop icon but is pointed to internal drive with Knoppix disk.
USB Hot Plug/Unplug - Does Not Work.
FW Hot Plug/Unplug - Does Not Work.


Knoppix 3.4 from the "Knoppix Hacks" book

Video - Requires cheatcode fb1024x768 to work
USB Hard Drives - Works OK
USB Printer - Works OK
USB Scanner - Works OK
FW CD/DVD - Work OK
USB Hot Plug/Unplug - Does Not Work
FW Hot Plug/Unplug - Does Not Work

I guess the best thing for me is to stay with 3.4 and live with the fb1024x768 cheatcode.
Kind of surprised 3.9 isn't better than 3.4 in this regard.
You might want to try 3.7 and see how that works, if you can get it. Also 4.0 is out,but I haven't tried it. If your looking at staying with a debian based distro you could also give kanotix and/or ubuntu a try. And, I hesitate to recommend it because of it's commercial nature but xandros does a good job of hardware detection. Good luck!