On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:16:49 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


WiFi can be problematic. I'm careful to check several hardware
compatibility sites before purchasing any hardware. That being said,
there's a good chance you can get your WiFi working using your Window's
driver and ndiswrapper.

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

You might want to try the command lspci in a terminal window. It should
tell you if Knoppix is recognizing your WiFi cards.

English please? :)

OK, I'm not a Knoppix user, so I don't know what cards it supports, nor do
I know what cards Wayne.B is using. As I said previously, one of Linux's
disadvantages is certain hardware is not supported. WiFi is especially
problematic as Linux supports chips, not cards, and manufacturers change
chips with abandon. That being said, there is a program ndiswrapper that
will provide a wrapper to the Windows WiFi driver, allowing the card to
work.

I'm not sure if Wayne.B is that interested in getting Linux to work, but
if he were, there are ways to troubleshoot the Knoppix CD. lspci will
list all your pci hardware detected. iwconfig will list all your net
interfaces.

Or, try another live CD. Not all distros are the same, and not all
distros support all the same hardware. I'd suggest Ubuntu. It's quite
modern with new releases several times a year.


http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop