A Little Help, Please!

[wizn3sk1]

So I've been trying to connect to my wireless connection for a few weeks now and still have had no luck...
Here's some information for those who might know what they are doing and can offer some help!
~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:53:6F:BC
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Link Quality=96/100 Signal level=-38 dBm Noise level=-68 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:53:6F:BC
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Link Quality=96/100 Signal level=-38 dBm Noise level=-68 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:77:13:19
inet addr:192.168.0.10 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:410 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:452 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:446211 (435.7 KB) TX bytes:71968 (70.2 KB)
Interrupt:22

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1728 (1.6 KB) TX bytes:1728 (1.6 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:fc:46:b9:bc
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:131 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:60 (60.0 B) TX bytes:24688 (24.1 KB)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1B-FC-46-B9-BC-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0 module=ssb
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:19:b9:77:13:19
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 ip=192.168.0.10 latency=64 module=ssb multicast=yes
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:1b:fc:46:b9:bc
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

Also, I've attached a screenshot of my network monitor app as well as the networks that my computer is picking up. The thing that confuses me is that the network manager shows an 80% connection to 'Wiz' but the network monitor still says disconnected.:(

If there is anything else I might need, let me know!

-wizn3sk1

[Embiggens]

Hi, I'm no expert but it could be a router issue? Maybe you tried this, but what happens if you type ping www.google.com

[wizn3sk1]

Hey thanks for replying.
I typed that into the terminal and all I got was:
"ping: unknown host www.google.com"
or something along those lines...
I'm beginning to think it's just my network that doesn't like me anymore since I've switched to Ubuntu...
Any other suggestions??

[Embiggens]

ok, sorry for the slow reply here. On looking at your initial post again, I realized that you have a connection, but it is through your ethernet interface. That screenshot indicates that you're connected to wiz, but your command line output does not. It does appear that your wireless card is recognized correctly, so this should be do-able. First remove your ethernet connection then enter the following:
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "wiz"
(you need the quotes). Then typing iwconfig should show that you're connected to wiz. Thensudo dhclient wlan0
This will grab an ip address from your router assuming that's how it's configured. And you should be good at that point. If that works, you can then set up your /etc/network/interfaces file to connect directly to your network when you re-boot.

Depending on what company router you have, you can always test your connection by seeing if you can connect directly to the internal ip address of your router: 192.168.1.1 if it's linksys (not sure about other companies).

Let me know if that works.