wireless problem on laptop

[cbrands]

Hi
I can not connect my laptop to my wifi network with knoppix. It works fine in windows XP.
The hardware is
ACER Notebook ASPIRE 1522 WLMI
processor: AMD ATHLON 64-BIT 3000+
60 GB. harddisc and 512 MB. RAM
Wireless LAN 802.11g WiFi network (INPROCOMM chip IPN2220)
I am using Knoppix version 3.7 from cdrom.
The ndiswrapper script didn't work for me so I tried to follow the instructions from the sticky "Success with Knoppix 3.6 and wireless networking"

I can load the driver with ndiswrapper

ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
neti2220

there is also no problem with

modprobe ndiswrapper

lsmod shows that the ndiswrapper module is loaded.
The problem starts with

iwconfig wlan0 essid any

this results in

Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
Set failed on device wlan0 : No such device

And that is where I am stuck
Any help is welcome
Charles

[cbrands]

I upgraded to knoppix 3.9.
I still have the same problem.
this is my iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00   
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   
          RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B   
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:56/154  Noise level:0/154
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I hope this helps as I am

[stephenp]

If you haven't worked it out the latest release of Ndiswrapper is required.
Check the ndiswrapper forums.


Stephen