Hi.
Thanks. I am loving having made the total change to Linux and expected a few issues, or glitches along the way, but it all goes to make a day…or week…
Apologies. CNM is the brand of dvdrw; as in CNM Lifestyle Electronics. Wifi adaptor. Not 3G nor other sim card MBB dongles. Ah, as regards Knoppix version the disc was lent by a friend who has had it back. I believe it was the most recent version he obtained via Linux Magazine. He lent the Mandriva Free dvd too. My OpenSuse dvd was from issue 144 Linux Format which I thought I would install and if liked it then buy the boxed set.
Code tags? Ah…just ‘remind’ me please…where would I ‘find’ those?
Here are details gleaned from lspci, lsusb, dmesg. I have not included the full output from dmesg-just section re: dvd (or did you want the full output?).
SilverGhost29 output lspci
/sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
07:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)
SilverGhost29 output lsusb
lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:2573 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2501/RT2573 Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0138 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 04fc:0c25 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd SATALink SPIF225A
SilverGhost29 output dmesg
6450.440111] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
6450.575637] usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=04fc, idProduct=0c25
6450.575650] usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
6450.575662] usb 1-5: Product: USB to Serial-ATA bridge
6450.575670] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: Sunplus Technology Co.,Ltd.
6450.578670] usb 1-5: selecting invalid altsetting 1
6450.579203] scsi5 : usb-storage 1-5:1.0
6451.582086] scsi 5:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GT20N CQ02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
6451.807296] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 62x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
6451.807310] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
6451.807846] sr 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi
Also; the dvdrw is identified in media check, via Yast, as: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GT20N /dev/sr0
I did insert a dvd and it correctly identified the disc and verified the content.
The device does still work, perfectly, when connected to a friend’s computer…who, regrettably, is not using a Linux OS…yet 
Regards.