Quote Originally Posted by Gthang
What additions to Knoppix have been made to the wireless networking segment, since my version 4.0.2? ...
I can tell you that I have 4 wireless cards, and only one of the worked in Knoppix 4.02. In 5.0.1, 5.1.0 and 5.1.1 I can report that none of them worked! I can't comment on 5.2.x versions, they have not officially been released to the Internet yet.

I strongly suggest that you take the other advice and use a distro more suitable for hard disk install. Overall I'm not as impressed with Umbutu as I am with Debian, but you very well might find that it is a better fit to certain hardware. If I were you I would do a trial install of Unbutu and either the current "testing" or "unstable" version of Debian. If you find that Umbutu has support for hardware that you need that Debian doesn't, then consider going with it. If Debian meets your hardware support needs as well or better than Unbutu then I suggest going with Debian.