I believe once apon a time i have come across this problem, the card is a ralink card.
ok heres the details, i ran ifconfig, everthing is fine, i can see wireless networks not a problem.
but i go to connect and it say could not connect to "foo"
so i loaded knetwork manager in terminal as root and got some sort of server error and when i next went to connect it crashed after failing.
i cant connect to a physical wire as im in a hall and the computer is a desktop.
im running sabayon 3.4e if it has been fixed in f ill just download that.
should i try with nisrapper or whatever its called??
Cheers and thank you
also how do i set up password and user name for a proxy, probably need to know how to do the proxy too just in case i got it wrong from the gentoo wiki.