A friend was using a distro that came with wifi drivers but he didn't know how to set up the computer to run with his encrypted wireless network. Here is a tip that I know works with Knoppix, kanotix, and damn small linux-- probably any debian-based distro that has been kind enough to include madwifi-- when you've got an atheros-based card. Open a Konsole or terminal and do:
su
[respond to root password prompt]
iwconfig
[look to see what the software is calling your wireless device-- is it "eth0" or "ath0"? I will call this YOUR_DEVICE ]
iwconfig YOUR_DEVICE essid YOUR_NETWORK_NAME key YOUR_ENCRYPTION_KEY
pump -i YOUR_DEVICE
I believe I learned this method from the folks on the kanotix IRC channel.
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