Can you give any more hardware details? I just installed Vector on a Dell Latitude CPi with a Linksys WPC54G card and there were a few steps involved. Vector loaded BCM43XX as a driver so that had to be removed...
In a shell terminal I typed...
rmmod BCM43XX
Then I edited my Blacklist file. MC stands for "midnight commander" and is a handy file manager/navigator so typing MC will bring up the program. I went to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist (I think thats the correct path)....Midnight commander has a built in file viewer and editor) and just added BCM43XX at the end of the file.
Also, I had to install my windows drivers by using NDISWRAPPER. I copied pretty much all of the Linksys files that I downloaded from Linksys for this card onto a usb drive (I copied the whole unzipped folder into a folder called linksys). My USB drive mounted automatically so the exact location of it was /mnt/vl-hot/sda/vol1 so I typed...
cd /mnt/vl-hot/sda/vol1/linksys
then typed
ls
(that'll show whats on my usb stick)
The file I needed was lbscmnds.inf so while in that folder I typed...
ndiswrapper -i libcmnds.inf
(the -i means install)
otherwise I'd have to explicity define the location of the file...
ndiswrapper -i /mnt/vl-hot/sda/vol1/linksys/libcmnds.inf
now I had to activate it by typing...
modprobe ndiswrapper
I checked to see if it loaded by typing...
lsmod
and it showed all of the modules that were loaded (and it was).
I think if you type "modprobe -m ndiswrapper" it'll write it into the config files and load automatically next time (not sure though)
Now, when I typed "iwconfig" it showed that I now had an network interface called "wlan0"
my essid name for my router is called "myrouter" si I typed...
iwconfig wlan0 essid "myrouter"
then I typed...
dhcpd wlan0
and it autoconfigured my connection through my router.
Also, by typing "ndiswrapper -l" it listed all of the files ndiswrapper had associated with it (Vector had loaded a bunch ) and I removed them by typing...
ndiswrapper -r xxxxxx (where xxxx is the name of the file) and did this for every one except for lbscmnds.
If my ndiswrapper fails to load on reboot, I don't have to point to the file on my usb stick, I just have to type "ndiswrapper lbscmnds.inf".
I'm pretty new also, hopefully this gets you somewhere.
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