Okay I just installed knoppix on my usb drive (works great) sure I had to disable the pcmcia card...but everything else seems to be working fine EXCEPT my wireless lan card...I found this on another site about the card.

Card: Dell Wireless 1490 (802.11a/b/g) Dual-Band WLAN miniPCI Card

* Chipset: Broadcom BCM4310 (rev 01)
* pciid: 14e4:4312
* Driver: http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R115321.EXE
* Other: Use bcmwl5.inf in the DRIVER directory. Worked on Gentoo, ndiswrapper v1.13, kernel 2.6.15 (gentoo-sources)

I was just curious if anyone happened to get this working, I am using knoppix 5.01 (running from .iso off usb)...and seeing the way that I am running knoppix, I am not quite sure I can fix this problem very easily. If anyone has any hints, or knows what to do about this let me know please...if not, I understand...it is a fairly new product..

thanks
Patrick!