Wireless Internet Connection (sorry. really newbie qustion)
Hi. I am curently using WUSB11 v26 by Linksys and Knoppix version 3.9 and the system does not seem to be able to detect any wireless connection at all. There are 2 topics on this, but I could not find /etc/networking/interfaces as they stated. Please help me.
Thanks for your time.
Try Kanotix, its modified Knoppix
I have a Linksys WUSB 11 v2.6 also and I found a modified german Knoppix version called Kanotix and it has been the only live version of linux to detect my Linksys WUSB 11 2.6.
http://www.kanotix.org
There is a trick to it though and here it is. Go the the launch menu click on the logo with the fish in the circle and then click on networking and choose netcard configuration it will ask you if you want to use DHCP say no and it will allow you to enter it manually. You have to enter in the IP address of the router ur connecting to, the subnet mask, and im not sure if you have encryption, but if you u have to enter ur ESSID and encryption key. So basically the only things i entered or changed were the IP address, the subnet mask, the default gateway which is the same as my IP address, the ESSID and the encryption code. I just the other setting alone or blank.
Ok, now u have to go back to netcard config, choose wlan0 and it will ask if you want to use DHCP and this time you want to say yes. Now you will be able to use the internet.
Now if do a hard drive install of Kanotix, there is something you have to enter in the terminal so your wireless setting will stay permanent, because otherwise you will have to enter it in each time you start up. Here is the link for that.
http://forum.kanotix.net/viewtopic.p...098&highlight=
The only other version of Linux that detect my Linksys WUSB11 Linksys v2.6 without any tweaking or compiling is Xandros 3.02 OCE.
The lastest version of Kanotix has the drivers available and so do the prior 2 releases.