Internal WiFi Card Help, WNC 802.11b USB300

**Yojimbo** · 12-18-2004, 10:32 PM

Hey there, I'm a beginner using linux and am having trouble getting my WiFi card to connect. It seems to be detected but I don't know how to get it to connect (it seems unresponsive). Any help with getting this to work would be very appreciated as I am ignorant of linux. Practically a linux virgin. Thanks!

**OErjan** · 12-19-2004, 10:52 AM

have you tried wlanconfig from the penguinmenu-->network-->wlan...? (not on knoppix now so not 100% but it is there on the penguinmenu)
if you have the error messages would be nice, and output from the comands below.

Code:

sudo ifconfig

Code:

sudo iwconfig

Code:

sudo lspci

Code:

sudo lsmod

the sudo part lets you run the comands as root (admin), normally this is just set for a few comands, not so in knoppix as it is meant to be run from CD.
su and a password is another way but lets you be root permanently.
being root too much is NOT GOOD, you may damage things, especially as a newcommer, and as a guru you do not act as root if not necesary (by then you know how dangerous it can be), i wish to become guru in a few decades...

**Yojimbo** · 12-22-2004, 07:13 AM

Sorry this took a while to post, been pretty crazy here. Here's those outputs, I hope they give you some clue cuz I have none, heh
sudo ifconfig gives:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:F5:3C:49:9E
inet addr:192.168.0.6 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:67 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:67 errors:0 dropped:181 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:50158 (48.9 KiB) TX bytes:8730 (8.5 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:121 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:121 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12280 (11.9 KiB) TX bytes:12280 (11.9 KiB)

sudo iwconfig gives:

lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 no wireless extensions

eth0 no wireless extenstions

sudo lspci gives:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 645xx (rev 51)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silivon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003
0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge) (rev 14)
0000:00:02.3 Firewire (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] FireWire Controller
0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
0000:00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeo 9600 M10]

and lastly lsmod:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
efs 7436 0 (autoclean)
pppoe 8236 0 (unused)
pppox 1352 1 [pppoe]
ppp_generic 22816 0 [pppoe pppox]
slhc 4560 0 [ppp_generic]
nls_iso8859-1 2844 1 (autoclean)
ntfs 50944 1 (autoclean)
radeon 108580 0 (unused)
autofs4 8756 1
af_packet 13544 0 (autoclean)
i8169_audio 25048 1
ac97_codec 11916 0 [i810_audio]
soundcore 3428 2 [i810_audio]
r8169 9512 0
crc32 2816 0 [r8169]
serial 52100 0 (autoclean)
prism2_usb 61468 0
p80211 22428 0 [prism2_usb]
ds 6536 1
yenta_socket 9508 1
pcmcia_core 39840 0 [ds yenta_socket]
thermal 6724 0 (unused)
proccessor 9008 0 [thermal]
fan 1600 0 (unused)
button 2700 0
battery 5952 0
ac 1824 0
rtc 7036 0 (autoclean)
cloop 8740 2
sbp2 16396 0 (unused)
ohci1394 22664 0 (unused)
ieee1394 183076 0 [sbp2 ohci1394]
usb-storage 61760 0
usb_ohci 17896 0 (unused)
usbcore 57600 1 [prism2_usb usb-storage usb-ohci]
ataraid 6180 0
ide-scsi 8816 1

thats everything. I think this internal card is a prism2, not 100 possitive though...
Any ideas? Thanks!!