i am sorta new to linux and i would like to use the internet with it but i am having some problems either connecting to the wireless internet i have at my house with a linksys wireless router or it wont recognize the router at all. I am running pclinuxOS or sometimes running gOS v3. is there any info or help that someone can give me to work this out?

thanks!

Can you use terminal? If you can in terminal as root type 'lspci' without the quote marks and post the results. This will tell us the type of wireless card you have.

i have a broadcom wireless card that can inside my Gateway Laptop.

From a live cd getting a broadcom chipset to work without it being installed is going to be a lot of work each time you boot up. You will have to use ndiswrapper and a windows driver with it. If we are going to install you distro then we need to know which kernel version you have and which distro and version you are using. Also your broadcom chipset number.

Getting a wireless card working in Linux is sometimes hard because the lacks of drivers.

In most cases we use Windows XP drivers and (as Larry Webb said) ndiswrapper.

1- type ifconfig -a
If you do not obtain a line starting with wlan, you kernel do not known how to comunicate with your card, it have not the driver

2- get from Broadcom the Windows XP driver for your wireless card and copy it to a place where you can read in Linux

3- go to the directory where the driver is (inf and sys files)

4- type ndiswrapper -i fullname of the inf file

5- type ndiswrapper -i to check that the installation of the driver is fine

6- type modprobe ndiswrapper

7- configure the parameters of your card with iwconfig or any other application for that


You must run ndiswrapper commands (I not too sure) and modules at each boot (you can do it in an auto way)