I have a dell laptop where wireless is neither started automatically nor congifurable by any of the gui-tools (they work for a long time and then pretend to have connected...but no dhcp lease, only a weird 169.254.X.X IP generated by avahi-daemon, of course not working). I start it manually in the console:
Code:
sudo iwconfig ath0 essid NAME_OF_NET key s:WEP_ASCII_KEY_HERE
sudo dhclient ath0
p.s.:your card may not be referred to as 'ath0', if you are unsure what to put there do
and look for it (or post output here)
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