Quote Originally Posted by The Rockologist
I'm wondering, is there anything I have to configure for the system to allow Knoppix to recognize these things? Or might I just have downloaded a defective copy?
It actually seems unlikely that you have a defective copy. Recent versions have had a lot of problems detecting the sound card on many computers; it fails on one of mine with a standard Soundblaster 16. And wireless networking fails much more often than it works. A new wireless section is being started in the wiki (follow the Documentation link near the top of thispage), but there is a lot more to be added to this wiki article yet. There have been many discussions in the forums for work arounds to set up a sound card and even to get some wireless cards working, it may take a bit of skillful use of the search feature to find them.