Andrew,

Thanks for the post. I'd forgotten I'd left the ? hanging.

I've not been idle in the mean time so I thought it only fair to bring this post up to date with my learning experience.

It seems that Knoppix hides the PCMCIA setup under the power supply icon on the bar. If you right click on it, it'll give you the option of starting the PCMCIA function. Once this is done all you need to do is click on the Knoppix icon on the same bar and choose the network option which then allows manual setup of ip, gateway, dhcp, dns etc.

This seems entirely reasonable for a laptop which may fluctuate between different networks but I must say I'm interested to know how this can be achieved automatically on start - my current research project.

Best.

John