Can' connect with Intel wireless 3945ABG and Knopppix 5.3.1

[chip.ling]

This is part of the printout related to wireless card, I suppose...
There are some warnings and some printout with
"link is not ready" corresponding to wlan0...have you any idea?
Or maybe it's better to move to another distro?

:
warning: process `hwsetup' used the deprecated sysctl system call with 1.23.
:
warning: process `hwsetup' used the deprecated sysctl system call with 1.49.
warning: process `hwsetup' used the deprecated sysctl system call with 1.49.
:
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

Those warnings mean the program or process uses some old way to run (i.e. old syntax) that will soon obsolete. But it is not an error so I believe it is still ok.

The "link is not ready" means not connected.

Can you try once again and inspect through the whole listing. Maybe pay attention to "wlan0", "phy0" and "ERROR".

Rgds,
Chip