Quote Originally Posted by Jonny_S
... laptop (Dell Inspiron 550) .. Knoppix CD (v3.3) .... With this old version my laptops keyboard and touchpad didn't work and my sound card was not detected, however I was able to connect to my wireless network. .

My network card is Intel Pro wireless 2200BG.
I'm not too shocked that Knoppix 5.0.1 did't work on your Intel Wireless chip. Nor am I about 3.6, as Intel has been very hard for Linux to support (no specs released, AFAIK). I'm a bit bewildered by 3.3 supporting it, since I certainly wouldn't expect support for an Intel wireless chip to be in that version. But I'm really wondering if the system booted without the keyboard working, how were you able to find out that the wireless was working?