Linksys WPC54G (ver 2)

[warrenite]

HELP !

I am new to Knoppix and Linux. Knoppix 4.0 seems to work fine on my laptop but I have absolutely no idea where to find the driver for my wireless NIC or once I find it how to install the driver.

I am running a home wireless network with a Linksys router.

Can anyone point me in the wright direction?

Thanks,

John

[UnderScore]

According to http://linux-wless.passys.nl , your card has a Broadcom chipset. Broadcom does not support Linux at all. They give out no documentation of their chips & products and this results in no Linux drivers for broadcom wireless devices. This means that we must use a driver wrapper called ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sf.net). It is a translator driver that makes a network card driver for MS Windows work on Linux.

Normally the progression of how drivers work looks like:
Linux kernel -> Linux network driver -> network card

With Ndiswrapper, it looks like:
Linux kenerl -> ndiswrapper -> Windows network driver -> network card

So now you see that it requires not 1 but 2 pieces, the ndiswrapper & the windows driver. Knoppix 3.8.x and will include ndiswrapper so this piece is already done for you. There is no need to download & compile/install it. You can follow the generic ndsiwrapper installation instructions at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation#Install_Windows_driver and you can find Network card info listed alphabetically by manufacturer at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List#L

[ginny]

So now you see that it requires not 1 but 2 pieces, the ndiswrapper & the windows driver. Knoppix 3.8.x and will include ndiswrapper so this piece is already done for you. There is no need to download & compile/install it. You can follow the generic ndsiwrapper installation instructions at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation#Install_Windows_driver and you can find Network card info listed alphabetically by manufacturer at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List#L

I am brand-new to Knoppix. I just got my DVD this morning and find that neither my monitor nor my wireless card (the one described in this thread) are recognized.

If I need to download patches, where do I store them if I run Linux off of a DVD?

My monitor is recognized as a generic VGA and is a 640 X 480 patch in the middle of an otherwise black screen. I can get it to run in full screen.

I'm a little frustrated, as I have to learn how to fix things by booting back into Windows, then looking for the problem online, then re-booting off of the DVD, seeing if what I found online works.