I got my new laptop today, a Dell Inspiron 1525. I can see my neighbour's wireless, and when I try to access it I get the "Network Key Required" box, so I think my wireless card is working properly. Then I went to the public library and try to connect to their network (which, unlike my neighbour's wireless, I have permission to access). The applet shows a connection being made, and it tells me that it's got a strong connection. Now here's the problem. At this point the network should request a username and password from me, but it doesn't. When I start up Firefox, the status bar tells me that it's searching for, connecting to, then waiting for the website. But nothing ever comes up. I have done everything mentioned on the library website (disabled pop-up blockers, set up my system up for DHCP), but to no avail.
So basically I can make the connection but don't have permission to use the network because it doesn't ask me for my password. I'm running Ubuntu 7.10.
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1 Ya Girl // May 8, 2008
You need to right-click on the icon that looks like 2 computers or a computer with wireless signals coming from it down in the bottom right corner of your screen (by the time) and click on view available wireless networks. If you see your desired network there, click connect, it should prompt you to enter your network key. If it already says "connected" then click "disconnect", then click on "refresh networks list" and try it again. The browser (Firefox) is what you use to surf once connected to the internet, it will not prompt you to enter any network key.
If you don't see the icon that looks like two computers or a computer with wireless signals coming off of it, click on start, then click on connect to, then click on show all connections. You will see your wireless connection in there and you can right click on the icon and go to view available wireless networks from there as well.
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