[plug] strange wifi issue

[Coral]

I also have four other wifi cards, a pci netgear one that is perfect 
with ndiswrapper, but has no linux module for it, two identical zydas 
usb wifi adapters, neither of which get any further than loading the 
correct module, an atheros based usb one that also gets as far as 
loading a module and scanning/finding a network, and then no further, 
and a broadcomm usb one that does the same as the atheros one. And all 
info I find states that the particular broadcomm one I have is an 'out 
of the box' one for linux...

I am cursed when it comes to wifi.

Marcos Raúl Carot Collins wrote:
> 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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