Further adventures in getting a Linksys wireless card WPC11 to work under Knoppix on Dell Inspiron 7000:

When I boot from the Knoppix 3.3 dusc, the Linksys WPC11 is recognized without a problem. Once I did the hdinstall (using knx-install not knoppix-install), the wireless card would not be recognized. I don't know if an installation under knoppix-install would do better.

During boot, I goot the message "eth0: Error -110 reading firmware info. Wildly guessing capabilities..."

After a little searching, I found this site (http://www.hoffmannet.com/~thoffman/...0wireless.html) which pointed out a problem with the Inspiron laptops:

"Basically, it looks like there is a strange or old PCI-PCMCIA bridge in the I7000. I believe that this is leading to port conflicts when the wireless drivers are loading. I solved the above problems on both wireless cards by making the following changes to my config files:

edited my /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file and changed:

Code:
include port 0x100-x4ff, port 0x00-0xcff
to:

Code:
include port 0x300-x4ff, port 0x00-0xcff
and for good measure I added below that line:

Code:
exclude port 0x100-0x2ff

Now, both the Cisco and the Lucent cards are working in both Linux"

I made those changes and now I'm on the network. Everything else appears to work at this point.