[plug] strange wifi issue

[Lucas van Staden]

Hi,

The reasons why could be anything, will need some more info....

I recall using a card with rt61 chipset (horrible, and touchy card it
was) in the past on debian, and to get it to auth to WPA wireless I had
to patch and compile the drivers from source.

Possible it is the supported encryption that is the issue?

A quick test would be to disable encruption on your wireless, and see if
it then connects - but don't forget to put it back ;)

Have you looked at your logs? (/var/log/messages and(or)
/var/log/syslog) see if there are any hints in there ?

Personally I would get another card, with another chipset (that is what
I did in the end)

-Lucas

Coral wrote:
> 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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