The best wlan pcmcia card for knoppix

[onimeno]

I currently have 2 wlan cards a a linksys WCF12 and a WPC11 v4.
I can't get any of them to work with knoppix so i gave up on them.
So I taking suggestions on wlan cards that work with knoopix with little effort.

[OErjan]

they should work acording to the lists i have found.
try modprobe prism*, and use the 2.6kernel. the prism drivers should be there, if not let us hear it.
here you have a list of cards working under linux.
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz

[onimeno]

Here is what i get from dmesg:


Linux version 2.6.6 (root@Knoppix) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #2 SMP Fri May 14 20:38:30 CEST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017fdb000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000017fdb000 - 0000000018000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffe00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
383MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 98267
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 94171 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
Dell Latitude C600 machine detected. Mousepad Resume Bug workaround hopefully not needed.
Dell Latitude with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000f4c00
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d30708 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x17ff0000
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d30708 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x17ff0400
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux(2.6)-2 ro root=302 ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us pci=noacpi apm=on apm=power-off nomce quiet lang=us
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
Detected 551.428 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Memory: 380852k/393068k available (1782k kernel code, 11472k reserved, 983k data, 276k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 1089.53 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040
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
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.31 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 1 msecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 3941k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc13e, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: Power Resource [PADA] (on)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fe2d0
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xe2f4, dseg 0x40
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x800-0x83f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x840-0x84f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x600-0x67f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x680-0x6ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x880-0x88f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x3f0-0x3f1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xf400-0xf4fe has been reserved
PnPBIOS: 14 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 14 recorded by driver
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 08 [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 0000:00:07.0
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:03.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:03.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:10.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:10.1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf8000000, mapped to 0xd8807000, size 16384k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=9
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:6294
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1093955025.141:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
Using anticipatory io scheduler
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0860-0x0867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x0868-0x086f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: IC25N040ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1902B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 15
PM: Reading pmdisk image.
PM: Resume from disk failed.
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S4bios S5)
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Adding 730948k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call
Fix your initscripts?
ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-1902B Rev: 1A15
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (off-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery absent)
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM] (51 C)
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:03.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:10.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:10.1
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:03.0 [1028:00b1]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:03.0, mfunc 0x01261222, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0498, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.1 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:03.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:10.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:10.1
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:03.1 [1028:00b1]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:03.1, mfunc 0x01261222, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0498, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000010
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:03.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:10.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:10.1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 11, io base 0000dce0
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 14 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:10.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:03.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:10.1
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
0000:00:10.0: 3Com PCI 3c556 Laptop Tornado at 0xd400. Vers LK1.1.19
orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_cs.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
maestro3: version 1.23 built at 19:40:29 May 14 2004
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:08.0
maestro3: Configuring ESS Maestro3(i) found at IO 0xD800 IRQ 5
maestro3: subvendor id: 0x00b11028
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7609 (SigmaTel STAC9721/23)
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
NET: Registered protocol family 17
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
lp0: console ready
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
[drm] Initialized r128 2.5.0 20030725 on minor 0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:01:00.0

[OErjan]

have you tried wlanconfig?
the card seems to have been detected (orinocco modules are listed.)

[onimeno]

I tired wlanconfig and it doesn't work.
It does not see the card.
Also when I run ifconfig all I see is the the eth0 and lo.

I also noticed that the 2.6 kernel doesn't have the Wlan-ng modules.
Is there a .deb out there with the wlan-ng for the 2.6.6 kernel?