After further reasearch i am convinced that booting with lang=be seems to mess up the knoppix configuration.I have booted with both lang=be and with the defaultlanguage (no settings at boot prompt) and everything works just fine for me with the default language(us/english)
with lang=be however I get errors at the root console GKL : Locale not supported or something whenever I open netcardconfig (from the console)
when I try to make a persistent home dir or save my settings,nothing happens!
with Us/english everything works just like a charm with my knoppix 3.2
no problems whatsoever!
lucs
belgium