After a long battle, I seem to have gotten kismet to work. It is capturing packets right now from some unencrypted network. The purpose of this little endeavor of mine was to see if this wireless NIC functions properly, but I don't have a wireless network of my own to test it with. How to I configure my machine to use the network with the information the kismet provides?

I'm running knoppix 3.3 (no hard drive) with what lspci tells me is a wavelan prism2.5 or something to that effect. (It's a linksys wmp11, an older version.) It looks like knoppix loaded the orinoco drivers, and iwconfig shows the interface to be eth0.

Keep in mind that today has been my first adventure into wireless. Any help is appreciated.