Internal WiFi Card Help, WNC 802.11b USB300

[Yojimbo]

Hey there, I'm a beginner using linux and am having trouble getting my WiFi card to connect. It seems to be detected but I don't know how to get it to connect (it seems unresponsive). Any help with getting this to work would be very appreciated as I am ignorant of linux. Practically a linux virgin. Thanks!

[OErjan]

have you tried wlanconfig from the penguinmenu-->network-->wlan...? (not on knoppix now so not 100% but it is there on the penguinmenu)
if you have the error messages would be nice, and output from the comands below.

sudo ifconfig

sudo iwconfig

sudo lspci

sudo lsmod
the sudo part lets you run the comands as root (admin), normally this is just set for a few comands, not so in knoppix as it is meant to be run from CD.
su and a password is another way but lets you be root permanently.
being root too much is NOT GOOD, you may damage things, especially as a newcommer, and as a guru you do not act as root if not necesary (by then you know how dangerous it can be), i wish to become guru in a few decades...

[Yojimbo]

Sorry this took a while to post, been pretty crazy here. Here's those outputs, I hope they give you some clue cuz I have none, heh
sudo ifconfig gives:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:F5:3C:49:9E
inet addr:192.168.0.6 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:67 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:67 errors:0 dropped:181 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:50158 (48.9 KiB) TX bytes:8730 (8.5 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:121 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:121 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12280 (11.9 KiB) TX bytes:12280 (11.9 KiB)

sudo iwconfig gives:

lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 no wireless extensions

eth0 no wireless extenstions


sudo lspci gives:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 645xx (rev 51)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silivon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003
0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge) (rev 14)
0000:00:02.3 Firewire (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] FireWire Controller
0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
0000:00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeo 9600 M10]

and lastly lsmod:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
efs 7436 0 (autoclean)
pppoe 8236 0 (unused)
pppox 1352 1 [pppoe]
ppp_generic 22816 0 [pppoe pppox]
slhc 4560 0 [ppp_generic]
nls_iso8859-1 2844 1 (autoclean)
ntfs 50944 1 (autoclean)
radeon 108580 0 (unused)
autofs4 8756 1
af_packet 13544 0 (autoclean)
i8169_audio 25048 1
ac97_codec 11916 0 [i810_audio]
soundcore 3428 2 [i810_audio]
r8169 9512 0
crc32 2816 0 [r8169]
serial 52100 0 (autoclean)
prism2_usb 61468 0
p80211 22428 0 [prism2_usb]
ds 6536 1
yenta_socket 9508 1
pcmcia_core 39840 0 [ds yenta_socket]
thermal 6724 0 (unused)
proccessor 9008 0 [thermal]
fan 1600 0 (unused)
button 2700 0
battery 5952 0
ac 1824 0
rtc 7036 0 (autoclean)
cloop 8740 2
sbp2 16396 0 (unused)
ohci1394 22664 0 (unused)
ieee1394 183076 0 [sbp2 ohci1394]
usb-storage 61760 0
usb_ohci 17896 0 (unused)
usbcore 57600 1 [prism2_usb usb-storage usb-ohci]
ataraid 6180 0
ide-scsi 8816 1

thats everything. I think this internal card is a prism2, not 100 possitive though...
Any ideas? Thanks!!

[Yojimbo]

bump for attention :)