Hi all,

I have a problem with a wireless USB adapter:

If it is connected to an USB port while booting, the autoconfigure
fails, unless I specify the 'nousb' option. When I disconnect the
adapter Knoppix detects USB and my USB mouse correctly.

When I then connect the wireless adapter, the whole system freezes
immediately: no mouse, no keyboard any more, running processes stop,
e.g. a 'top' does not refresh it's output any more, the clock halts.
Thus I can't give any info about the adapter as seen from Knoppix.

There is no difference in behaviour when I specify 'noapic' at boottime.

The very same adapter works fine under W2K with a driver from Atmel
(in fact I'm writing this via a LAN connection using that adapter).

As of the 'Atmel AT76C503A based wireless USB devices' list at
http://www.wireless.org.au/~jhecker/.../usbtable.html
the chipset, the sourceforge and the AT76C503 USB driver are verified.

As of
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1771
the driver at
http://at76c503a.berlios.de
is recommended. Has Knoppix V3.3 this built in? From
http://developer.linuxtag.net/knoppix/i386/
one can see a 'atmelwlandriver_2.1.2.2-1_i386.deb' is amoung the
sources. Is this the right one?

Any hints, how I can proceed further? Has anybody similar problems
and/or a solution, suggestions?

Thanks

Georg

Some info about my system:

Intel board
Intel PIII processor
Atmel USB FastVNET (AR)
Knoppix V3.3 2003-11-14

Output of lspci:
Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06)
00:0d.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c810 (rev 12)
00:0e.0 Network controller: AVM Audiovisuelles MKTG & Computer System GmbH A1 ISDN [Fritz] (rev 02)
00:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture (rev 12)
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV4 [RIVA TNT] (rev 04)