USB Knoppix wireless whoziwatzit

[murdockpt]

Holaz everybody. I recently went to USB Knoppix 5.1.1 install | USB Pen Drive Linux and got me a working usb version of Knoppix. Sadly, I cant exactly tinker with it too much due to the fact that theres no wireless connection, so i went a ahead and got the needed information to post, in the hopes of getting some help so i can get it up and working and clean it up a bit.
Here the info from the cmd prompt:

lspci -nn 

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2a41] (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2937] (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2938] (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2939] (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:293c] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:293e] (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2940] (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2942] (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2944] (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:294a] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2934] (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2935] (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2936] (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:293a] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2919] (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2929] (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:06e9] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:4232]
06:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 02)
07:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device [1180:0832] (rev 05)
07:03.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 22)
07:03.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device [1180:0843] (rev 12)
07:03.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 12)
07:03.4 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 12)
knoppix@Knoppix:~$

and the driver info...

lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  279616  12
sworks_agp             13472  0
nvidia_agp             12316  0
efficeon_agp           12192  0
amd64_agp              16772  0
ali_agp                11136  0
dm_mod                 60440  0
agpgart                36044  5 sworks_agp,nvidia_agp,efficeon_agp,amd64_agp,ali_agp
af_packet              29960  0
serio_raw              11012  0
sdhci                  22540  0
mmc_core               28676  1 sdhci
r8169                  34184  0
tsdev                  11840  0
sg                     34716  0
joydev                 13760  0
eth1394                23556  0
evdev                  14208  3
pcmcia                 41132  0
firmware_class         14208  1 pcmcia
yenta_socket           30220  0
rsrc_nonstatic         17408  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            43800  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
cpufreq_ondemand       12300  2
speedstep_centrino     13732  1
speedstep_lib           8836  0
freq_table              9088  2 cpufreq_ondemand,speedstep_centrino
video                  19460  0
thermal                17928  0
sbs                    18856  0
processor              36200  2 speedstep_centrino,thermal
i2c_ec                  9216  1 sbs
i2c_core               25984  1 i2c_ec
fan                     8836  0
container               8576  0
button                 10768  0
battery                14084  0
asus_acpi              19992  0
ac                      9348  0
aufs                   88244  1
cloop                  18208  1
sbp2                   28292  0
ohci1394               38960  0
ieee1394              300760  3 eth1394,sbp2,ohci1394
usb_storage            73408  2
usbhid                 56928  0
ff_memless              9992  1 usbhid
libusual               20624  1 usb_storage
ohci_hcd               24580  0
uhci_hcd               27788  0
ehci_hcd               35848  0
usbcore               135812  7 usb_storage,usbhid,libusual,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
knoppix@Knoppix:~$

and now the linux distro and version

knoppix@Knoppix:~$ uname -r
2.6.19
knoppix@Knoppix:~$

thats all ive got so far. if you need any extra information, just ask and tell me what to type and youll have it.

[waterhead]

Hello, and sorry for the delay in replying.

I would have to say that most of the problems are because of your choice of Linux distribution. Knoppix seems to use a relatively old kernel:

knoppix@Knoppix:~$ uname -r
2.6.19

When you take in account that the latest stable kernel is 2.6.28.3, that is a major difference in versions. Since most device drivers are in the kernel, updating the kernel would be the first thing to do. I realize that this may not be possible, though.

Here are the network cards in your system:

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:4232]
06:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 02)

Take note of the fact that it says "Unknown device" for the Intel card. It also says it for a large number of devices in your system. This is not good. I believe that it is because your computer is newer than the distibution and kernel that you are using. It cannot identify hardware that did not even exist when it was released.

There are no wireless modules loading on your system, since it cannot detect a wireless card.

You could go through the process of manually installing and upating your system, but I would just install a newer Linux distro. There are plenty of LiveCD versions that can be installed on a USB drive. I would recommend Fedora 10 or Ubuntu 8.10.