Unable To Connect To Wireless Router - Ugrade to Ubuntu 12.10...

[JD]

On 01/23/2013 08:45 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
> Hello all, I don't know if this is the right way to go about asking 
> for help but here's my story in a nutshell. I have a Lenovo ThinkPad 
> T-420, it WAS running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but I upgraded to 12.10. The 
> upgrade went ok. I didn't get any errors or problems....but when I 
> rebooted my wireless connection will "appear" in the top right hand 
> corner of the panel, but I cannot connect to the internet, I've tried 
> disabling / re-enabling the wireless on the laptop, but it still gives 
> me nothing. I am desperate to find out as to why this has happened? 
> Can someone point me in the right direction? I would like to have this 
> problem resolved as soon as possible so any help would be greatly 
> appreciated. See below for more info, and thanks in advance!
1. is you pc set up as a wired or wireless client to your router?
2. is it set up as a dhcp client or with a static IP?
3. when you click on that network icon, what does it display?
4. output of lspci please.
5. output of  ifconfig (no args)
6. if wireless, output of iwconfig (no args).