I cant seem to get the my Atheros pci wireless card working off of the knoppix cd

the system does NOT seem to bring up the ath0 device driver and just has the eth1 device.

when I try to set the wap key, the system hangs

here is the lspci from a woriking system
02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 5a00
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size 04
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: Memory at fead0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
Has anybody had any sucess getting this card to work under Knoppix

Thanks

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