To enable the built in USB based WiFi card on the FitPC under Ubuntu 8.10 make sure you have the rt73-common package installed:-
root@fitpc:~# apt-get install rt73-common
You can check they have been installed doing an lsmod:-
root@fitpc:~# lsmod |grep rt
parport_pc 39332 0
parport 42604 2 parport_pc,lp
rt73usb 30464 0
crc_itu_t 10112 1 rt73usb
rt2x00usb 18816 1 rt73usb
rt2x00lib 36224 2 rt73usb,rt2x00usb
rfkill 17176 1 rt2x00lib
led_class 12164 1 rt2x00lib
mac80211 216820 2 rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib
cfg80211 32392 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
usbcore 149488 5 rt73usb,rt2x00usb,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
... and you should be able to query the wireless card directly using iwconfig:-
root@fitpc:~# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=10 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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