Help With Wireless on HP Pavillion DV7 Laptop

[springtime]

Installed SL 8. That was a breeze. Unlike most other distro installs I am familiar with, SL did not prompt for Network Settings during installation. This laptop has an Atheros 5K wireless card.

After installation, I could go into Network Settings, add wlan0 as the network interface & configured WEP security settings for this card from the status panel in on the Southeast corner of the screen. This got me a DHCP IP address from my home router. After this, I am unable to do anything with this IP Address - can not even ping the router (192.168.0.1) on the same LAN.

This is NOT the case with wired connection. When I plugged the laptop directly to the router with a CAT5 cable, IP address came right away, worked just fine.

I have tried probably a 50 times configuring and reconfigring wireless security settings, but nothing worked. My laptop previously had a Ubuntu 11 - did not see this problem there. I am switching from Ubuntu for other installation issues - I could never get the media working correctly with Ubuntu (could not even get DVD player going).

I would greatly apprecite some help.

Hari Tadepalli
Phoenix, AZ, USA

[Fitzcarraldo]

Do you have any network-related messages in the /var/log/messages file? If you're not conversant with how to look in there, wait until the hour changes (e.g. from 16:00 to 17:00 on June 5), then try to connect to your wireless network and wait for it to fail. Then enter the following command as root user in a Konsole/Terminal window:

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cat /var/log/messages | grep "Jun  5 17"

You'll see the contents of the messages log file from just before you tried to connect to the network. Post the output here (please use the Code button above the posting window) so that others can see what sort of error messages you are getting.