Wireless Intel 2100 and Knoppix 3.7

[momceras]

I'm trying to get wireless working on Linux.
I've a Intel 2100 built in Wireless and i think it's supported on this linux version.
I've executed wavelan and setup all as i do on windows. (SSID, WEP)
Any help aviable to one that doesn't know how possible can this work ???
I would preciate a step by step as i am starting using linux.
There is any app to activate or deactivate the wlan ???
is wep encrypted and the ssid bradcast is disable.
I tried this:

iwlist eth1 scanning 

eth1 Scan completed : 
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0D:88:99:47:D5 
ESSID:"" 
Mode:Master 
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6) 
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s 
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s 
Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s 
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s 
Bit Rate:22 Mb/s 
Quality=65/100 Signal level=-33 dBm Noise level=-98 dBm 
Encryption key:on 

iwconfig eth1 

eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Nickname:"ipw2100" 
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 
Bit Rate=0 kb/s Tx-Power=32 dBm 
Retry:on RTS thr=2304 B Fragment thr:off 
Encryption key:off 
Power Management:off 
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:158 
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

iwconfig eth1 essid <myessid> 

iwconfig eth1 

eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Nickname:"ipw2100" 
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 
Bit Rate=0 kb/s Tx-Power=32 dBm 
Retry:on RTS thr=2304 B Fragment thr:off 
Encryption key:off 
Power Management:off 
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:158 
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

I think the problem is on essid and wep

Any help ?

[pureone]

i have the same type of problems with my card.... it wont allow me to set essid and wep key. i am able to actuly get it working with out encrpytion but that is not what i want at all

[tdgboy]

At least you got Knoppix to detect your wirless card. I can't get knoppix to detect my wireless. I can lwconfig, ndiswrapper, etc. but no luck. It doesn't even see it at the start up. How did you get it to work? any help would be appreciated.