pcmcia

[w00dy986]

i have knoppix v3.6 installed. when i boot up with knoppix, my wireless card is not getting power... the card isn't installed yet, and i can't load the drivers because the device cannot be found because it is not coming on. i know i have the right drivers and stuff because i had it on redhat, the card simply isn't getting power though... any suggestions?

[w00dy986]

The card is powering up now, but Knoppix is seeing it as a Ethernet Controller instead of a wireless ethernet controller...

ifconfig eth0 essid test
tries to find the host, but fails...
but shouldn't that command not work at all?

I'm a n00b, but that just doesn't make a lot of sense...

anyone know how to get the card to be recognized as wlan0 instead of eth0?

[OErjan]

i have the same thing happen to me, my wireless works great as eth1, why bother changing it., if you insist you could create a symlink that points to eth0 that is called wlan0...

[w00dy986]

how did you get the eth1 to work out?
eth doesn't have SSID or any of that stuff like wlan does

i've been trying to configure it, but i cant get anything out of it...

[OErjan]

use iwconfig NOT ifconfig.
then it should work, does for me.