SOLVED! I noticed in my wireless setup in Xubuntu the mention of ascii key; I did some Googling and found that I had to add s: before my key to make it work, like this:tempestuous wrote:Yes, yes. That means that your wifi driver should be the ipw2200.astrogreek wrote:By device, do you mean my wireless card? It's an Intel PRO Wireless 2200 BG.
But there are so many questions still remaining about your circumstances.
This forum thread is, after all, not about wifi connectivity in general. It was created specifically to deal with encryption-related connectivity problems.
We don't know whether you can establish a wifi connection with encryption (WEP/WPA) turned off. This is an important diagnostic step, and if your landlord won't temporarily disable encryption for you to test, you should probably borrow a different wifi router specifically to test with.
In fact, we don't even know whether the ipw2200 module has successfully loaded and created an interface. Encryption may be completely unrelated to your problem.
I suggest you read the Wifi HOWTO here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22469
iwconfig [interface] s:mykey (set key as an ASCII string)
I followed the guide from the Wifi HOWTO (which I have done many times in the past without success), with the only difference the addition of the "s:" before my key.
There seems to be no option in the network wizard to select hex or ascii, or any mention anywhere that this might be an issue. No Linux newbie should have to struggle like this to get on the internet.