Knoppix not recognizing WLAN cards

[Jason Shein]

On April 23, 2005 03:19 pm, Ray Payne wrote:
> I've done some hunting with google and seem to have come up short on this.
> I'm continuing to hunt, but I'm hoping someone may have an easy answer.
> Since I'm just starting to play around with Linux I figured the Knoppix
> (3.8.1) live CD was a good way to start since it's self contained.  My
> problem is that my wireless card doesn't work on it.  (Cisco CB21-AG).  I
> tried an old D-Link card (DWL-650) also with no luck. I put both cards in
> at the same time for lspci just in case that provides anything useful.
>
> Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated since I'd like to not use
> my desktop PC just because that's used for work as well...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ray
>
>
>

Knoppix has its own wlan / network configuration tools. Are you using that? 
The wlan network does not autoconfigure itsef on boot.


Jason Shein
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