Quote Originally Posted by slackbp
I hate to suggest this on a Knoppix forum, but grml is another Debian-based live CD distro, and I've had great success with it. .....
No problem suggesting alternatives here that work when Knoppix doesn't. Knoppix has always been pretty mediocre when it comes to wireless support, and IMHO has gone way down hill after version 4.02. I find that Puppy and Mandriva1 support several wifi cards that I have that Knoppix either doesn't recognize or seems to recognize but doesn't get them working. Glad to hear of another alternative, I had not seen this one mentioned in these forums before.

I've just downloaded it, burning the disc now. I was surprised how fast the torrent download was, 15 minutes on my modest DSL line. But you might save some people some effort when telling them about grml by mentioning that (as far as I can tell from the website and not having booted the CD yet), it's aimed at shell users and omits some things like KDE (and, of course, Open Office). So it might not be right for most users.