System hangs when using a ralink based zaapa wireless card

Hi, I'm a complete profane to Linux, so please be patient ;) I am using Knoppix v4 with an AMD 900 Mhz 512Mb computer. I've got a Zaapa WiFi card installed with Ralink chipset. It seems to be recognized but the first time I try to scan for networks, it won't see anything. If I try for second time, it just gets frozen.

Questions: Is this card supported? Where can I see if Knoppix is recognizing it? (something like system properties in windows) I have found drivers for the card in Internet, but must be compiled and although I have tried to do it, have no clue why it won't work. I'm a bit lost, as you can see...


Thanks a lot for your time.


Dån

I have a similar problem when I boot with KNOPPIX_V4.0.2CD-200509-23-EN.

The boot process stops at:
Network device eth0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP. (Backgrounding)
Network device eth1 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP.

I have a ethernet card and a Foxconn Foxconn WLL-3350 PCI Wireless Adapter which
uses a Ralink chipset. It works just fine with Ubuntu 5.10.

I found that KNOPPIX_V4.0.2CD-200509-23-EN does boot if I use the nodhcp cheat code:
boot: knoppix nodhcp

I can see the card in the Info Center.
KDE -> System -> KInfoCenter (Info Center)
then select PCI in the Index tab
reports the card as:
0000:00:0f.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)
Subsystem: RaLink: Unknown device 2450
Flags: bus master, show devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at d9000000 (32-bin, non-prefetchable) [size=8k]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

I can get it up and runing with:
KDE -> KNOPPIX -> Network/Internet -> Network card configuration
In the Xdialog select "eth1 Netwerkkarte_1"
and Use DHCP broadcast? Yes


After that the nework is up and running as shown by ifconfig and a working Mozilla Firefox.

It looks like there is some silliness in the booting process that prevents the wireless card from working properly.

I also tried KNOPPIX 3.9 and 3.4 -- neither of them recognize the wireless card as a network interface.

George

Same problem here when I boot with the KNOPPIX_V4.0.2CD-200509-23-EN.
I have a Ralink wireless card as well, on an Avertec 6100 series laptop.

The boot process stops at:
Network device eth0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP. (Backgrounding)
Network device eth1 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP. (Backgrounding)

I used the cheat-code as mentioned and it goes to the next line before hanging again (boot: knoppix nodhcp):

Skipping DHCP broadcast/network detection as requested . . .
Automounter started for: floppy cdrom.
_

Any other options? Nevermind.

Looked into the tips and triks under the cheat-codes page and entered the usefull option for Laptops with the previous cheat-code and it worked!

boot: knoppix acpi=off pnpbios=off noapic noapm nodhcp

New problem!

Tried to get my wireless going as mentioned in the previous post:

In the KNOPPIX Menu -> Network/Internet -> Network card configuration
In the Xdialog select "eth1 Netwerkkarte_1"
and Use DHCP broadcast? Yes

and after that it says DHCP broadcast fails

So, I tried "eth0 Netwerkkarte_0" and then it just froze up, I thought Linux didn't freeze up completely?

Any solution for me to get my wireless card working?

Yes solution is dont use linux at least knoppix or dont use rt2500 chip based card.
If you wanna use unix like system use PCBSD there my rt2500 (Asus wl-107g) card works.
And ubuntu or kubuntu (5.10) linux work well too with my card.