I've gotten wireless networking to work on my laptop without problems. It's a Inspiron 7000 400MHz with a Linksys WPC11 v. 3 pcmcia card.

First, I booted from Knoppix 3.3 disc with the nodhcp lang=en display=wmaker boot parameters. (I use static IP at home). The disc recognized the card and loaded the appropriate drivers.

Then, to set up the network I got to root then ran iwconfig. Enter the ssid ("cove_circle") and the network type. "Managed" (the default) is the same as "infrastructure" in Linksys's terminology. I didn't use WEP at first. All of the other parameters iwconfig asks for may be left blank.

Then enter:

Code:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.105 (use your computer's IP number on the network)
ifconfig eth0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add -net default gw 192.168.1.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1
Finally, edit /etc/resolv.conf to list your DNS nameservers.

That's it. It just works.