Hi,

I have a laptop from work here at home. I cannot touch any of the data on the disk. As a result, I am using Knoppix to be able to use this laptop.

The laptop does not have a wireless card installed, so I purchased a D-Link DWL-G630 from Best Buy. When I boot Knoppix 3.9, it appears that it detects the PCMCIA card. Here is the appropriate output from dmesg:


ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: mac 7.8 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
ath0: 802.11 address: 00:13:46:13:0e:c3
ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BE traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BK traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x20800000, irq=5


Moreover, I have setup my wireless router to use WPA PSK. To access the network I have used the wpa_supplicant package on the CD. However, I get the following error:

ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Operation not supported
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: Operation not supported
Failed to enable WPA in the driver.
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Operation not supported
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: Operation not supported
Failed to disable WPA in the driver.
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: Operation not supported
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: Operation not supported

My configuration file is:

network = {
ssid="qshot"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
psk="password"
}




Has Knoppix found the wrong driver? If so, what driver should I be using? How can I get this working? Should I return this wireless card and get another?

Thanks for any tips. I have been struggling to get wireless working for about a week now.

I think D-Link used more than one chipset in that card, so we need to identify which chipset it is. I think the output of cardctl ident should help.

This is the output of the command:

knoppix@0[knoppix]$ cardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "Atheros Communications, Inc.", "AR5001-0000-0000", "Wireless LAN Reference Card", "00"
manfid: 0x0271, 0x0012
function: 6 (network)

So it looks like it is using the correct wireless module. What's my next step? I can't get past these barrage of errors.

I did a bit of googling, and the only thing I can come up with is that WPA support must not have been compilied into the Prism drivers in Knoppix. If you google on the ioctl error you'll find other people (with other cards) having the same problem and that seems to be the general trend.

At this point I would suggest trying another live CD distro and see if that can handle WPA.

OK. Thanks for your research. I am having trouble digesting all of this new terminology and software. I will try some other LiveCD distributions to see if I can get it to work. Thanks again.

So... did you make it work?

Hi,
Its been 5 days since I started using Linux. I installed Fedora core 4 only to find that it was extremely unstable and froze when I tried to use ndiswrapper to configure my wireless DWL G630 revision C card. I installed SuSe 9.2 pro on my HP pavilion laptop. Everything worked except my PCMCIA D-Link DWL G630 card. When I read in the forums about this card and native linux drivers I was pissed off and decided to figure out a way to make it work.
I used the Win XP drivers with an ndiswrapper and proceeded in the same way as described in soundforge mad wifi project site.
Sadly this was not enough. The card did not acquire the IP from the router (No WEP). The funny part was when I used rcnetwork to restart the device, it would say No Configuration Found for Wlan0. I saw in the /etc/sysconfig/network that there was a configuration file called ipcfg-wlan-pcmcia or close to that. I added a Persistent_Name statement to see if there was any change when I used ifconfig or iwconfig or rcnetwork commands. But looked like the configuration file was not associated with this card.
I went through many forums to see what their wireless configuration file's name was. I copied the configuration file to ifcfg-wlan0.
Then the Persistent_Name statement took effect. It means the configuration file was read. Next I just used rcnetwork to up the card. With ifconfig I was able to see that it actually acquired the IP address from the G-router.
Cool, ndiswrapper is great.Kudos....

Anakrich