I'm currently running KNOPPIX 5.0 on an old IBM desktop, installed to HD using the Debian method. My problem is that KNOPPIX won't load properly unless I unplug my Belkin 802.11g USB wireless network card. KNOPPIX hangs at the "autoconfiguring devices" green bar--which goes on for like eternity. Everything works fine when I unplug it, unless I plug it in after I startx into KDE--when it will hang on "configuring devices" (or whatever it says when it's loading). So, I have KNOPPIX 5.0 w/o internet. LAME.

If I run netcardconfig, w/o the USB card, it will recognize eth0 only--which I can't plug in b/c I don't have cables running in here. If I plug in the USB card, and run netcardconfig, it recognizes both eth0 and eth1--but I get an error message after DCHP broadcasting that says something to the effect of "not enough memory allocated--mission failed--press return to exit" which doesn't make any sense to me.

I've looked over the RT73 installation on the other forums, but it looks a bit complicated and probably won't work. Any suggestions as to how to get this USB wireless card to work?

if you can, please post:

- kernel version (output of /usr/bin/uname)
- modules loaded (output of /bin/lsmod)

are you sure USB support is working correctly? Have you tried any other USB devices?

Hi, if you have an rt73, you'll need the firmware, which I guess you can get here : http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/dat...mware_V1.8.zip. don't own an rt73, so I can't say if it works or not. Else check out the rt2x00 project : http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com, they do drivers for ralink chips. And please do as dombrowsky suggests.