Knoppix 4.0 DVD & rt2500 wireless

[snakedriver]

On my Sager NP4750 64-bit laptop with built in lan & wlan (rt2500), Knoppix 4.0 DVD freezes during boot at detecting dhcp on 2nd ethx. I can boot just fine with cheat code nodhcp. And yes, Im behind a router. I'm trying to config my rt2500 wireless running from DVD only

dmesg and lspci -v shows that rt2500 is detected & driver = serial monkey's.

When I try to use netcardconfig, eth0 appears to be the wireless (vice ra0 in previous versions); and when I enter my static config data it accepts it then jumps to an xdialog window, to enter wireless config data wherein it hard freezes the computer.

I have tried to boot clean & edit /etc/resolv.conf & /etc/network/interfaces, but this doesn't seem to "take". I still need to enter my static config & at netcardconfig computer again hard freezes.

What am I missing?

Any help greatly appreciated -- I would like to get this working and saved on a persistant disk!

Snakedriver

[anti-pop]

I'm bumping this thread because I've got the exact same problem : rt2500 wireless based card makes knoppix freeze on DHCP broadcasting (I can boot fine with nodhcp though) and on any network access/configuration.

I've tried to download and compile the lastest version of the driver (http://rt2400.sourceforge.net/) using the following howto:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Rt2500WirelessCardsHowTo?highlight=%28rt2500%29

Yes, it is an ubuntu howto, but it works.

Once the driver is loaded with insmod, the card is not detected as eth0 anymore but as ra0, and the network configuration wizard says that no supported network card were detected.

pump -i ra0 freezes the system even using the newest (freshly compiled) version of the driver.


Does anyone has a suggestion ?

Or has anyone managed to get a working "knoppix 4.0 + rt2500 (ralink based wireless card)" ?

Thanks

[snakedriver]

For what it's worth, I got the win .inf & .sys and did ndiswrapper. Knoppix told me that no new driver was loaded; did not change to ra0, still eth0 and system still freezes.

Maybe a guru will help us; I'm tired of farkeling with it!

[Pewe]

I'm having the same problem here. I am using a FSE M7400 notebook with a ralink ra2500 wireless network card. As soon as Knoppix tries to init the ra2500 eth1 with dhcp, the system freezes.
Interestingly, the ra2500 works fine in the SuSe 9.3 live system from cd!

Best regards
Peter

[LiG]

I have the same problem, Knoppix 4.02 freezes when it tries to get the address using DHCP. I'm using a PCMCIA Asus wireless card, with a ralink chip, on a Presario 904 laptop.

I can get it to boot without the card, but I'd really like to get the wireless network working with Knoppix. Does anyone know a solution to this problem?

thanks.

[HelpWanted]

I have the same problem with an FS Amilo Notebook and a RT2500 wireless adapter (built-in).

I have read somewhere also that Knoppix 4.0 does not work with that configuration at all.

It was recommended that the last version working was Knoppix 3.9. With my Notebook, however, the WLan adapter is recognised and the system boots properly - but the touchpad does not work with that version.

So it seems to me (the last version I used successfully on a desktopp was 3.1) that KNOPPIX is reaching its limits. It´s sad, but
it seems to be the case. It was a good idea, but without appropriate support for modern hardware its quite useless.

Regards

[sharlila]

hey,

Obviously I'm not the only one here which the wireless card freezes the system.
If anyone fixed it please post your solution.

I tried kubuntu-5.10-AMD64-LIVECD which identifies the driver and loads
it and even sees my router ESSID, however, i can't get internet, not
even ping to 192.168.1.1.

I tried kanotix-64-3 which kind of identifies the driver, but does nothing
with it.

knoppix-4.02-DVD froze my system, and i need to load with nodhcp.

I think i'm gonna try SuSe.

if you get any leads ... it will be welcome
thanks

[martinmiller]

I got my rt2500 card (A-Link WL54PC) working in Xandros3.0 linux.
here xandros rt2500 .deb package: http://support.xandros.com/downloads/desktop_3.0/experimental/xandros-rt2500-2.6.9-x1_1.1.0-b2.x.1.0-1_i386.deb
and also I had to use howto on this page (second post on it):http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=15219&highlight=rt2500

[pboodi]

I had the exact problem till I found this
People have been leaving out the important step of binding the NDIS driver to the kernel
in their instructions.... it took me weeks to realize this......(ndiswrapper -m)
now I know why people get fustrated



>I think you best bet is getting a copy of windows drivers so you can use NDISWRAPPER.... Knoppix already has >NDISWRAPPER installed... What you need is to download windows drivers extract them onto a USB drive or on a >folder you can acces from knoppix... bring up a shell

>Then as root type:

>ndiswrapper -i ?????.INF (?????.INF being your inf file from your driver)

>Now to verify type:

>ndiswrapper -l

>it should say hardware and drivers present if it does type:

>ndiswrapper -m

>this prepares the module for the kernel and adds the alias

>now type:
>modprobe ndiswrapper

>Now it may stall it may give you an error... if it does try a different driver... Not all drivers work

>Check dmesg

>if both the module and the driver loaded you can continue w/ iwconfig.