[plug] strange wifi issue

[Coral]

I have a pc with various hw including an rt61 chipset wifi card. It 
doesnt seem to matter which linux I try - the module loads, the card 
scans and finds the home network and fails to connect to it. All except 
with puppy linux, in this mini distro the card works perfectly. So 
obviously the card is 100% linux compatible - why do I not get any joy 
with any of the other bigger distros? (mandriva, ubuntu, suse, sabayon, 
pclos) How can I get the card to work?