LinkSys WirelessG

[A. Jorge Garcia]

Anyone have experience setting up one of these cards with the KNOPPIX 3.9 liveCD and/or hdinstall? This is a wireless router combo with a USB card. I tried


iwconfig ath0 key xxxxxxxxxx
iwconfig ath0 essid "xxxxxxxxxx"

and got the following errors:

Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device ath0 ; No such device.

Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device ath0 ; No such device.

What can I do about this?

TIA,
AJG

[bobeltomate]

what is the output of ifconfig, iwconfig and lspci? knoppix has no idea what ath0 is on your box it seems, you can try if there's an eth0 or better yet wlan0 entry(i.e. replace ath0 with wlan0 and eth0 to see if one of those work). more details you post the better. :)

[A. Jorge Garcia]

OK you asked for it, here goes nothing:

iwconfig=
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

ifconfig=
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:500 (500.0 b) TX bytes:500 (500.0 b)

lspci=
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82865G Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)

Thanx,
AJG

[A. Jorge Garcia]

BUMP!!!

Any ides out there would be welcome!

TIA,
AJG