Centrino wireless with additional ethernet adapter

[Raghu Vemuri]

CAPTAIN RON FL wrote:

>Do you have to have a key..."key MYHEXPASS".... or can you leave this
>out? Also will this work in Gnome? I am having problems with my Toshiba
>laptop getting on line. 
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The key is needed only if you have WEP (Encryption) enabled on your 
wireless access point. 

>I have a Netgear WG511 card. I think it sees the card, but DHCP does
>not seem to work. 
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what does the command iwconfig return?

try running the command dhclient and see if you get an IP.

>I was able to get the built in lan to work though.
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>I am looking for some way to get my wireless to work.
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>Any help will do. 
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>Aloha, Ron
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