Oh, well, I must be a neo-luddite, I just downloaded and burned Knoppix 5.0.1 (EN) and have found that this 'problem' has gone away, as the device I mention'd vend/prod have been included into this module, I also find that an earlier problem, with transfers over the irda port of this device being slow* (across a USB-irda dongle) are about as twice as fast as the direct USB..... sod's law notes that I bought a straight old-world serial (DB9) to K300i cable, now I really am showing my age.

(my first program in BASIC was on punched cards for a mainframe as a batch in the early 70's - I was still at school)

Time to backup my /home/foo directory and re-install Knoppix.....

Stoo.....

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