Today I discovered that among the million things I don't really know how to do in linux, there's one thinkg I REALLY don't have a clue of how to even start.

I just downloaded knoppix-std and wanted to use it with my netgear wg511t adapter, and I realized, I don't know how to install this device in a live CD distro, or how to install any other device in knoppix for that matter, can anyone give me a little hint please?

Well i can try and help. i wanted to do exactly the same thing - wifi on knoppix. i never figured it out and installed kubuntu anyway. So here is how to set this up and this should hopefully work - im not a hardware person but im guessing that kde will have support.

First - Open KWiFiManager from one of the many menu's - putting that into the konsole should get it too.

Go to Settings => Configuration Editor.
Fill in all the appropriate details
Down the bottom you need to autodetect the device
Then activate the configuration
Then apply

Next open Konqueror
Settings => Internet and Network => Network Settings
Configure the settings and Enable
Then apply

That should give you the wifi and then just start samba or whatever you want and knoppix should be easy on the rest. I hope this works - Im pretty sure it should, onyl problems i can think of could be irritating needing root - and i havent a clue what the knoppix password is - i think it is autogenerated.