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DSL 1.4 recognized my Netgear 401 MA card with no trouble.  DSL2.0 wouldn't at all.  Now 2.2 works more often than not.  Sometime I have to use NDISWrapper to get the thing to recognize the network.  

I can't think of a reason why it would drop after the fact.  I have noticed that my laptop has range issues that others don't seem to.  Not sure if that could be related to your problem or not.
Wireless cards remain a problem because they use a variety  of chipsets that each require their own drivers. Some have Linux support, and some don't. NDiswrapper is an attempt to make a Linux wrapper around Windows drivers. Many more of those work and they update them. Ndiswrapper has their own site so check it out. The latest DSL most likely has the latest Ndiswapper that will work with it. Anyway, if you use Ndiswrapper, then you need to look at the site to understand how it works. That will increase your chances of success.
It was weird, last night I got tired of trying to get 2.2b to see my card, so I went back to LiveCD 2.1 and 2.1 saw the card and I got my card to connect to my wireless network, but soon after again, it locked up the system and basically did a hardware crash...I was able to connect using the NDISWRAPPER....

I think doobit is right though.  I need to go to their website and try to learn more about NDISWRAPPER.   It is so close to working...

I bought another wireless card yesterday from a friend.  It is a AirLink 101 (Forgot the chipset).  I am going to mess with ACX 111 tonight a couple more times, if I still can't get it to work, I am going to install this one(Airlink) and see if I have anymore luck using the NDISWRAPPER.

I think the solution here is:  By a supported card.  I bought the DSL 2.1 Book that is advertized on this website.   It was pretty basic, but did have some useful information like the list of compatiable network cards that take little or no configuration to get working.  But after I got the book and started reading it, I noticed that in one of the topic areas in this forum there is an area where people are posting what they got working.
I've tried it on P233 cyrix(junk) with 17MB RAM. it runs with X but slow.
The problem is that XMMS bugs the whole system after a try to run it. You even cant turn it down after that, what shoud i do, (some hacking to run faster as well?)
If you can put more RAM in that it will work a lot better. For slow processors, more RAM is extremely important.
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