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Hi everybody,

i've got a little problem, i can't connect myself on wireless network with my laptop(T42-2373).

I can see in the taskbar the network manager icons wich say me "no available network" but when i click on it, i see that laptop has detected some networks but when i click on them it doesn't do anything?


Coul you help me (please).

I haven't upgraded to 7.10 yet maybe there's a bug in it. I usually try to wait a couple of weeks before upgrading to a new distribution for the major bugs to get resolved.

For 7.04 I use a shell script to connect to my home network. This is how it looks:

ifconfig $1 up
iwconfig $1 essid <SSID>
iwconfig $1 mode managed
iwconfig $1 enc restricted XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX

Where the $1 is your wireless adapter and X's are your WEP passphrase.

After which you can confirm the parameters with iwconfig and use "dhclient adapter" to get the IP address.

I hope it helps.