Hi,
I tried running Knoppix off of the cd. I opened a terminal and then I tried wlcardconfig and it wouldn't detect the card! What do I do?


esher2292

thanks in advance

Find out what chipset your card uses. There's a good chance that you'll need to get a different driver.

I don't know which chipset it uses. How do I find out?

Start here: http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz

How do I find out which one of these it is:
I really don't know which version it is.

What does it say on the card?
What's the output of:
lspci
dmesg

I'll take a look today. I'm not ready yet, but when I do, I'll post what's on the card and the output of those two commands

LSPCI:
root@ttyp0[root]# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
0000:00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 17fe:2120
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200 AGP (rev 03)
root@ttyp0[root]#

DMESG:
root@ttyp0[root]# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.26 (root@Knoppix) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Sa Apr 17 19:33:42 CEST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000ea800 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff0000 - 0000000007fffc00 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007fffc00 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
127MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 32752
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 28656 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 99 and too old
You can enable it with acpi=force
Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=linux24
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 451.030 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 897.84 BogoMIPS
Memory: 125752k/131008k available (1371k kernel code, 4868k reserved, 561k data, 140k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1461.42 usecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 451.0157 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 100.2254 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1002254, slice: 501127
CPU0<T0:1002240,T1:501104,D:9,S:501127,C:1002254>
Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
All processors have done init_idle
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9a3, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 00:04.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf5000000, mapped to 0xc880d000, size 3072k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=1
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:7580
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:04.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1020-0x1027, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1028-0x102f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR4.3A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CD-532E-B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 8405775 sectors (4304 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=555/240/63
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide: late registration of driver.
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 781k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: TEAC Model: CD-532E-B Rev: 2.0A
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
aec671x_detect:
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
GDT: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 2.05
GDT: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
megaraid: v1.18k (Release Date: Thu Aug 28 10:05:11 EDT 2003)
megaraid: no BIOS enabled.
DC390: 0 adapters found
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.02
megaraid: v1.18k (Release Date: Thu Aug 28 10:05:11 EDT 2003)
megaraid: no BIOS enabled.
Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found
Guestimating sector 8404814 for superblock
driver for Silicon Image(tm) Medley(tm) hardware version 0.0.1: No raid array found
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 19:48:59 Apr 17 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.2
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1000, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x413c/0x8100) is not claimed by any active driver.
blk: queue c03591e0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
cloop: /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 29715 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65552 bytes.
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
prism2usb_init: prism2_usb.o: 0.2.1-pre21 Loaded
prism2usb_init: dev_info is: prism2_usb
usb.c: registered new driver prism2_usb
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:06.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:10.0
Crystal 4280/46xx + AC97 Audio, version 1.28.32, 19:48:02 Apr 17 2004
cs46xx: Card found at 0xf4100000 and 0xf4000000, IRQ 10
cs46xx: Unknown card (1013:4280) at 0xf4100000/0xf4000000, IRQ 10
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: CRY3 (Cirrus Logic CS4297)
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 94M
agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 30
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 30
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 30
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 30
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 20
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 20
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 20
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 20
Adding Swap: 257032k swap-space (priority -1)
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 20
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 20
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 20
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 20
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 20
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 20
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 30
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 30
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 2e
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 2e
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 20
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 20
[drm] AGP 0.99 Aperture @ 0xf8000000 64MB
[drm] Initialized mga 3.0.2 20010321 on minor 0
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 2e
keyboard: unknown scancode e0 2e
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:00.0
root@ttyp0[root]#

Also, I have a USB wireless adapter by dell that's hooked up to the computer, But I bought my linksys pci card because I thought it would work, then I tried Knoppix mainly for the pci card. I don't care which one works, but if my usb adapter works then I could get my 50 bucks back--It doesn't really matter since I doubt that circuit city would take the return now...Oh well...

It seems that the USB device is recognized and the driver loading, but I can't see anything to indicate the exact info on the PCI card.

How do I get my USB device working then? I know that I had to take out my ethernet nic to put in the PCI card (only 1 slot that it would fit in)---

Umm, Sorry to be rude, but can someone please answer my post?

I'm going to try that

Here is what I ran and the error that I got: