All right I have searched up and down, left and right, and so far I didn't find anything. I have all the info I need [ESSID, AP MAC etc] to connect to an access point... but my laptop would not do so.

Steps I take:

1. pop up a shell
2. su
3. ifconfig eth0 up
4. pump -i eth0

At this point I will wait for a while and.. Operation Failed. I tried entering the AP address with iwconfig but it would return an error saying this is not a supported operation.

Hmm I am not sure what other info to give... I'm running Knoppix-STD without any other issues, wireless monitoring works using the orinoco_cs driver... Any help at all would be appreciated. And please ask for more info if there's any needed.