On my winxp desktop I lost wireless connectivity via my 2wire USB sharkfin a few weeks ago. Several tries even with the DSL tech support at SBC did not resolve problem (reinstall/reconfigure etc. for the 2wire drivers/software did nothing).

A few days ago I burned a Knoppix 3.3 cd on another machine and booted up with it on my winxp desktop. Played around with it and it was fun. Powered down, waited a minute and rebooted with WinXP just to make sure everything was ok. Norton popped up notifying me it did an automatic update -- I popped up IE and voila, internet working 100% again.

Either EEPROM/flash memory/setting was flushed during knoppix autodetection or possible ip reset (I use DHCP), does anyone have any ideas? Im leaning towards some small eeprom memory in the sharkfin USB getting flushed by knoppix.

Anyhow, I love how Knoppix boots quickly, detects virtually everything and allows me to emergency remove data from NTFS partitions to a USB device (camera, USB ext drive etc).

Thank you to Klaus for making this and thank you to the knoppix.net community for being here. I wiped a 20gb paritition and installed linux there, I look forward to configuring the USB 2wire wireless for network access for my linux partition.

Thanks all,
Linuxwind