I am told by a man called Donald Becker that to reliably detect ISA non PnP hardware, I might have some luck with a version of the 2.0 kernel with all the drivers compiled in.

With many later distributions, Legacy ISA support has been dropped -- fair enough.

However, Does knoppix still ship old versions? What kernel and NIC drivers did 1.0 use?

In short, is there any way to get this hardware detected that will work better than windows 9x? In Windows the IO address is picked up, I need to play guess & reboot for the interrupt though.

Any ideas?