Hi. The last couple of days I have been trying to get online with Knoppix and SLAX - which I have been told are the two best Live distros. My problem with both is that neither can seem to "wake up" my wireless device.

I have an IBM Thinkpad R40 with a built-in "AIRONET Wireless Communications Cisco Aironet Wirless 802.11b" that I normally use with Win XP to connect to the Internet and LAN at work. I want a Live distro so I do not have to worry about a setup on my HDD.

Long story short, what the heck do I do to get my aironet card working? It does not light up, I cannot find it on a device list; I am rather clueless and frustrated.

I did run a configuration program and I found some options to enable the card for the kernel - newbie talk here - and since I do not have an Internet connection while in Knoppix I cannot tell you the exact syntax. Anyway, I think I was able to enable the card or driver, but still nothing shows up ... no blinking lights or anything, so I must be missing something.

Thanks in advance to anyone that can point me in some sort of direction to get this device working!