PC is a Thinkpad R31 with wireless Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)

I've tried wlcardconfig and netcardconfig and I get this:
Sending DHCP broadcast from device eth1 SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy

I got the winblow$ drivers from ibm and ran ndiswrapper:

knoppix@0[knoppix]$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
2802w driver present
aeiwlnic driver present, hardware present

knoppix@0[knoppix]$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions. (eth0 is a onboard nic)

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"" Nickname:"Prism I"
Mode:Managed Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
RTS thrff

knoppix@0[knoppix]$ netcardconfig
Sending DHCP broadcast from device eth1SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
Operation failed.
Failed.
Hit return to exit.

What am I missing here Thanks for any help!!