Here's a related question:

What's the Linux Live CD of choice? My sole requirement (beyond it working at all) is that it has to (easily) support WPA WiFi access with my ipw2200 (Centrino) adapter.

Ones I've tried so far:

Knoppix: claims to support WPA via kwlan, but it constantly errors out and crashes, apparently due to file permissions problems. I tracked two or three down, but then ran into a problem where it couldn't sudo properly to run iwconfig and I gave up.

{U,Ku,Xu}buntu: all of them have the wpa_supplicant system available at bootup, but I can't get any of them to actually work. Also, I don't want to have to edit complex configuration files every time I want to boot into the Live CD. I want to be able to enter information as to my SSID and passphrase and that's it.

Slax: contains the ipw2200 driver, but fails to include the required firmware files. Their answer is to download the files after you boot. Good one.

I'm tired of downloading big-ass ISO images and wasting CDs. Can anyone suggest a Live CD where they know that this works?