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Here are some helpful links I used to fix my Debian-running-a-USB-wireless-stick problem:

This thread on NDiswrapper, a way of using Windows XP drivers on Linux, helped me a lot with my NetGear WG111v2 Problem on Debian Linux..

Afterwards, this article at the Debian Wiki on how to use WIFI / Wireless utilities helped me out afterwards with my NetGear WG111v2 problem.

Anyways, Make sure to apt-get install openssh-server and configure it to your needs. Did you get IPtables, too? Should come with your package of Debian.

Me? Well, I’m fine. Just playing some indie games, drawing, etc.

Edit: Update as of 11/24/2009: It’s been working fine. I wanted to leave a bit more information about this.

1. Here’s a copy of my /etc/network/interfaces file:

   # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
   # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
   
   # The loopback network interface
   auto lo
   iface lo inet loopback
   
   # The primary network interface
   allow-hotplug eth0
   iface eth0 inet dhcp
   
   # My secondary, Wireless Iface
   
   auto wlan0
           iface wlan0 inet dhcp
           wpa-ssid WirelessNetworkNameExactly
           wpa-psk password
   

2. Keep in mind I got NDisWrapper installed with apt-get, got the drivers for the WG111v2. When NDisWrapper was working with the windows drivers for the WG111v2, it detected the wireless device.
3. A GREAT idea would be to configure the router/wireless router to do a “DHCP Reservation” for each Mac Address that requests an IP Address from DHCP. this is because DHCP will change the IP address of your server in your local network once in awhile! This means that the IP address it had before may not be valid at the next time it reboots! Ergo, you should either ALWAYS find the IP address of your server from your router’s DHCP clients table page, log into the server manually and do ifconfig to find out what the IP address is, or you should set up a DHCP reservation so the IP will never change.

EDIT Mar 18 2010:

The following debian page also helped on NDISWRAPPER: http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper