>>>>> "heracles" == heracles  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

heracles> Hi All, I have a Linksys wrt54g2 wireless router which plays
heracles> very happily with the Linksys wmp54g wireless network card
heracles> under Ubuntu 8.04 with no hassles.

heracles> Problem 1: (most critical to me as I used WEP rather than
heracles> WPA because my laptop system did not support WPA)

heracles> I cannot get my Orinoco card in my laptop (also running
heracles> Ubuntu 8,04) to connect at all. It just keeps cycling
heracles> through the request for the WEP key and won't connect.

Dunno what's causing this one.  What does dmesg say?

heracles> Problem 2 (just curious about this one)

heracles> I cannot get any other distro (including the latest Debian,
heracles> SuSE 11.0, Gentu 2008, Fedora 9 and Sabyon)to even recognise
heracles> the Linksys card in my Desktop (Note: Ubuntu calls it a
heracles> RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g).

The Ralink driver is out-of-tree.  Ubuntu must patch their kernel to
include it.  Look for an rt2x00 source or modules package.

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