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Our network is not encrypted anyway, theres no-one close enough to us
to get into it. I have read similar threads about this particular
chipset, it can be very flakey with linux. As for logs, I really don't
know what I'm looking for, and I have reformatted again since the last
try (which was sabayon)<br>
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Every time I try to buy a piece of linux compatible hardware I end up
with dramas, usually what is documented as compatible turns out to be
not so compatible for me - 2 printers (one of them HP), 1 scanner, 2
webcams (which both worked in the end), 5 wifi cards (only one of which
is actually reliable - and the only one of the lot without a native
linux module!), and a TV tuner. Its not like you can return devices to
the shop for not being linux friendly, since none of them ever even
list linux as a compatible OS in their documentation.<br>
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Its just so annoying that twice now this same puppy linux conundrum has
come up (this wifi card and the wifi on my husbands old laptop). I have
used puppy linux as my main OS in the past, but it is just so limited.<br>
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Lucas van Staden wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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:
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<pre wrap="">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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