Linux network/wifi program advice

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So I finally updated my Debian kernel on Crunchbang Linux to 3.2 to get my wifi dongle thing working. However, it seems there's a problem with the Network-Manager. All the other connections in my house work fine, but it either keeps making me reenter the password in a continuous loop without connecting to my network, or sometimes it works, but only at less than dialup speed. As I said, all the other networks in the house work fine.

So any ideas of what I should do? I'm thinking use another program.

Try WicCD? I have no issues with Network Manager, but it used to not work at all with OpenBox, but oddly enough it worked fine when I was running LXDE.

Have a search for the exact controller name / ID. You can find the vendor and product ID using lspci -nn and you can find the full name with lshw -c network. There may be a solved thread with details of an alternative hardware driver you could use - lspci -v will tell you which driver is currently in use.

Sometimes connecting with an ethernet cable and refreshing the packages will include a new wifi driver in the update list.

Oh, well, I think I've sold the driver thing fairly well, I went from 2.6 kernel to 3.2. It physically recognizes the wifi dongle just fine, but the actual network can't really be connected. Usually what happens is, upon startup it'll recognize the network and connect, and I'll be able to sign on to IM clients, but once I open a web browser, none of the pages load, and then a few minutes later the network disconnects and tries to reconnect, and goes into a loop of asking for the wpa password.

I had the same issue. I bought a $600 laptop and wipd the HDD completely. Installed Lubuntu and had issues with the wireless working. I downloaded the wireless driver tarball for my laptop. Unpacked and installed it. It started to work properly. Up until I updated from the 3.0 kernel to the newest stable. I went back to 3.0 instead of deal with the potential headache.