This will be my general problem post. I posted it here in general support as these problem fall into a couple different categories.

1. How can I get my display to be its true resolution of 1600x1200 on my Dell 5150 laptop (as of now I can only archive 1024x76. To simplify I has put my lspci at the bottom of this post. I believe it sees my Nvidia card and drivers, but maybe not the monitor?

2. Dell truemobile1150 problems, I have two.
A. First is when I boot up my card is "recognized", but I think due to the fact that I do not broadcast my ssid and I have wep the card fails, initially, to connect. I have found a work around here are the steps I take. If there is a better way let me know. First I launch Network Card Config and select eth0 and yes DHCP broadcast. If I let that run it fails, but if I then launch Wavelan config I can configure the ssid and the WEP code, and I also concurrently close the net card config because if I don't it just fails anyway. Then finally I open root shell and pump -i eth0. Poof I am able to connect to my network, surf the web and posting long newbie posts here at knoppix.net. Is there a better way!?

B. Second is that I still can't seem to get Airsnort to work! It is always that damn monitor problem. To be clear on no other version have I ever been able to get it to work. Sometimes in version of 3.3 iwpriv would show monitor mode, but it still did not work! currently in version 3.4 with the 2.6 kernel my iwpriv is as follows:

knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ iwpriv eth0
eth0 Available private ioctl :
force_reset (8BE0) : set 0 & get 0
card_reset (8BE1) : set 0 & get 0
set_port3 (8BE2) : set 1 int & get 0
get_port3 (8BE3) : set 0 & get 1 int
set_preamble (8BE4) : set 1 int & get 0
get_preamble (8BE5) : set 0 & get 1 int
set_ibssport (8BE6) : set 1 int & get 0
get_ibssport (8BE7) : set 0 & get 1 int
dump_recs (8BFF) : set 0 & get 0
To add insult to injury this what I get when "trying" to run kismet now:

knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ sudo kismet
Server options: none
Client options: none
Starting server...
Suid priv-dropping disabled. This may not be secure.
No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled.
Enabling channel hopping.
Enabling channel splitting.
NOTICE: Disabling channel hopping, no enabled sources are able to change channel.
Source 0 (ciscosource): Enabling monitor mode for cisco source interface eth0 channel 6...
FATAL: Unable to open cisco control file '/proc/driver/aironet/eth0/Config' 2:No such file or directory
Waiting for server to start before startuing UI...
Since this post is starting to turn into a small novel I'll leave it at that for now. If I could fix at least one of these problems for now that would be a great start. just for kick I'll also post my cardctl ident:

knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ cardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "Dell", "TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card", "Version 01.01", ""
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
function: 6 (network)
If there is anything else I can post that would aid anyone in cracking my problems please let me know. Thanks in advance for any help and LONG LIVE KNOPPIX!

Booty

knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ lspci -v
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Host Bridge (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Memory I/O Control Registers (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

0000:00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Configuration Process Registers (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 855GME GMCH Host-to-AGP Bridge (Virtual PCI-to-PCI) (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: fc000000-fdffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-dfffffff
Expansion ROM at 0000c000 [disabled] [size=4K]

0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at bf80 [size=32]

0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at bf40 [size=32]

0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at bf20 [size=32]

0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at f4fffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: f6000000-fbffffff

0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at bfa0 [size=16]
Memory at 28000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at b800
I/O ports at bc40 [size=64]
Memory at f4fff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at f4fff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4d64
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at b400
I/O ports at b080 [size=128]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go 5200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
Memory at faffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 16
Memory at 28001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 28400000-287ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 28800000-28bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:02:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4510 IEEE-1394 Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
Memory at faffd800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Memory at faff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>