Has anyone had any success running the Linksys WUSB54g USB adapter, and the WRT54G router, in MEPIS? If so, I'd like to know what you did.

Not MEPIS, but on Debian, ndiswrapper worked but very poor performance. I aporogyze to post non-encourging info.

No, that was useful, thank you. I'll avoid Debian.

Are you having problems getting the router to recognize the card? Or is it a problem of another sort? Is the card a rt2500 chipset?

The card (USB adapter, actually) and the router don't have a clash. MEPIS simply does not detect the network. A DHCP broadcast (if that's what it's called) doesn't find the network, so I have to enter a static IP address &c. But that doesn't help. I'll have to do some checking to figure out what the chipset is, because I think Linksys changed the chipset on the WUSB54G a year or two ago, to prism something or other. I'm not sure offhand which mine is, except to say I bought it in late 2004.

This whole issue of detecting my wireless network seems to be unpredictable from one distro to another. Xandros does, although I keep forgetting the steps to make it work. Mandrake detected it, but I only got it working once and have never been able to duplicate whatever I did. Knoppix detected it, but the signal was always too weak to be useful. MEPIS, Fedora (which I heard was supposed to be good at running wireless networks) and Debian couldn't detect it at all. Too bad about its not working in MEPIS, because as with everything else in MEPIS, the wireless settings in the control center are easy to understand.