Quote Originally Posted by Capricorny
Actually, I think this has to do with Knoppix. If I am not quite mistaken, Mandriva 2009 could start the wlan itself, Knoppix 6.X can't. When I assign essid to wlan0, it's all ok, but then on ifconfig wlan0 up I just get SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device. Hardware is recognised, but the right signal isn't sent, it seems.
That's the catch of the LiveCD. We live on somebody's remastering copy. Most likely the Wireless driver is not correctly compiled or the knoppix tries to use a wrong driver. The person who help out to create the LiveCD is not possible to check all possible combination of wireless hardware and drivers, so it is very likely some of them will not work on some hardware. Unless somebody is willing to pay him to buy all those hardwares.

Mandriva is not a 100% free product, so they may have more funding to support their staffs to come up with a better LiveCd version.

Another option is to install a full Linux distro (not knoppix), maybe Ubuntu or whatever you like, once you setup the wireless correctly at the first time, it will wok exactly as the Windows even you reboot it.

Rgds,
Chip