liveCD with IceWM? hm, made a quick search on wikipedia, it must be a rather old one.

edit - found it. it's based on gentoo. from the features list,
- Kernel 2.4.20-wolk and 2.4.22 with supermount, squashfs, shfs patches and ALSA 0.9.6 drivers

man this is SO old, current kernel is 2.6.25.x, no wonder that certain things that should be automated by now aren't available on kernel 2.4.

try zenwalk live. i use zenwalk (the "real", not live cd) on a daily basis and it has proven to me as a reliable, rock solid and beautiful platform with the underlying simplicity of a slackware distribution. give it a try.

http://www.zenwalk.org/