PnPBIOS: You may need to reboot with the "nobiospnp" option to operate stably
First time I've seen this one.Did you try booting with this option?
Hit F2 at boot screen
Type "knoppix26 nobiospnp"
Another one to try would be "knoppix26 noscsi"
I know that probing for scsi cards breaks some wired nics.I had to use "noscsi"
on my compaq or my natsemi nic wouldn't work.
Something else.Do you bring down eth0 before trying to bring up ath0?
You can have 2 ip's,but why confuse things.
ifconfig eth0 down
iwconfig ath0 essid "GIGABYTE" channel 6 mode Managed
Wait a couple of seconds
pump -i ath0
If it still doesn't work
pump -i eth0 brings you back up.
Try the 2 boot codes,alone and together
knoppix26 noscsi
knoppix26 nobiospnp
knoppix26 noscsi nobiospnp
I have a feeling it's a boot code thing.From your iwconfig output I feel
your card's not transmitting.My prism54 card would transmit and associate
alright,but then it wouldn't get the dhcp reply when it asked for an ip.
You might want to play with some other boot codes,too.Be systematic
about it so you narrow it down.
Have you tried wlcardconfig?If you use this,you know you are calling
iwconfig properly.
ifconfig eth0 down
wlcardconfig
click through the options
pump -i ath0
I'd be getting frustrated if I was you,but don't give up.Linux,for me,is all
about learning.I cussed that f!@#$% Compaq like you wouldn't believe
but it forced me to learn alot.I've had it a couple of years and I've run
many distros on it,custom kernels and all.Your box is alot more compatable.
I finally bought a toshiba.When I wanted to get the touchpad to have
tapclick and scrolling,it was trivial to patch some drivers and rebuild the kernel.
You might also want to try Mandrake Move and see if it works under Mandrake.
I assume you have this card up and working under windows?
Nice box,BTW