This is a clean 64 bit LMDE (201204) installation. I still have a Ubuntu 10.10 LiveCD and the wireless works perfectly.
My wireless card is an Encore ENLWI-N which has the Ralink RT2860 chipset. The correct driver seems to be rt2800pci. I checked when connected and this is the driver used on the various distros when I was successfully connected. I'm so annoyed I'm considering just buying a new wireless card but I'm sure there's a way to fix this.
Here is the mintwifi output. I'm currently using a USB wireless device to connect which shows up as wlan1.
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Ralink corp. RT2800 802.11n PCI
==> PCI ID = 1814:0601
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan1 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"My Network"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: redacted
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-128 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:2 Invalid misc:58 Missed beacon:0
eth1 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr redacted
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:41 Base address:0xa000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:13200 (12.8 KiB) TX bytes:13200 (12.8 KiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr redacted
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr redacted
inet addr:192.168.2.106 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:43ff:fea5:7141/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3075 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2020 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4163050 (3.9 MiB) TX bytes:264717 (258.5 KiB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf: smbd only.
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 24.196.64.53
Address: 24.196.64.53#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.73
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.78
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.66
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.67
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.65
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.70
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.71
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.69
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.72
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.64
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.68