[plug] strange wifi issue

[Marcos Raúl Carot Collins]

That card is tricky. I got it working in Debian, but only in testing,
and only if it is not pluged (mine is USB) during debian install, but
latter. Very weird.

You just need to have the firmware, the kernel in testing has the
module by default, and then make sure that the routing (gateway, etc)
is correct.

Anyway, if you can just buy an atheros based one. They are totally
painless (in my experience at least).

Cheers!

Marcos

2008/8/19 Coral <cobel at bigpond.com>:
> 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?
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