Quote Originally Posted by level
If you ran airsnort you probably got a message " cannot set monitor mode " or something to that effect. If you type the command "iwpriv" (without quotes) and if you don't see monitor listed, then I don't think you can use airsnort with that driver. At least not at the present state of development.

You may want to check their website:

http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/
Where would one type iwpriv? As you can gather I am quite new to Knoppix. I will look at the link you provided meantime. Thanks for the heads up