Quote Originally Posted by 4season
If not, then I wonder if your basic card services are flakey. I had LOTS of problems with the system freezing solid until I fixed that. Do an lspci and find out what CardBus chip your notebook uses: My Toshiba Satellite 1115-S103 uses a the 02 Micro OZ6933 which is NOT correctly supported by Knoppix 3.2. My Orinoco-based Speedstream SS1021 card would light up and Cardmgr would appear to run, but the card wasn't recognized, and any attempt to eject, shut down or restart the card would cause the system to hang.

The solution for me was to recompile the kernel with all PCMCIA support turned off. I then applied PCMCIA-CS-3.2.3 separately (orinoco_cs appears to be broken in 3.2.4). I had to edit /etc/modules and change "yenta_socket" to "i82365". At this point, I could shut down and eject cards just fine but the card wasn't being recognized. From there, it was a relatively simple matter of polling the card for it's hardware ID info and entering that into the appropriate data files. Result: 802.11b services work great!
The system doesn't boot either w/ or w/o the 802.11 card. BTW, it is not a notebook if that matters. Just a standalone Dell 8100 box.

I did an lspci and it shows:

  • 02:0b.0 CardBus Bridge: TI PCI1225 (rev 01)
    02:0b.1 CardBus Bridge: TI PCI1225 (rev 01)


I am hoping to avoid having to recompile kernels, etc.
Then I lose the joy of Knoppix...

Any other thoughts?