HELP!!!Dell inspiron mini 9, ubuntu, how on earth do you get the internet working????!!!!!!

HI IVE GOT EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM AS YOU AFTER JUST RECEIVING MY DELL NOTEBOOK  HAVING NO LUCK CONNECTING WITH MY TMOBILE WEB AND WALK.

DID YOU EVER GET ANY SOLUTION?  AS IVE BEEN HERE FOR HOURS!!!

I feel your pain. I think I had the same problem, and I spent hours cursing at my a90! I finally got the wireless to work, but I'm not exactly sure what I did. I'll try to describe what happened, and maybe that'll help you ...

First, I gave up using the automatic mode. That just kept asking for my WEP passphrase over and over and never worked. So I switched to manual configuration. I set it up  basically like this...

• Network name: <name of my network>
• Password type: WEP key (hexadecimal)
• Network password: <my network password in HEXADECIMAL format>
• Configuration: Automatic Configuration (DHCP)

Then, I think it just took some time to connect ... it wasn't immediate. And I probably rebooted one time too. But FINALLY it just started working!

There's another discussion in here about hexadecimal passwords that might help. ("wireless connection works fine without WEP, but not with WEP"). Maybe it explains your issue, although a lot of it is over my head.

Hi Rick!

Thanks for the advice. I switched my network security from WEP to WPA and everything seems to work fine. My Dell was able to connect automatically this time. Plus, I could use a normal password, and not that long hexadecimal one!

waynerator,

GREAT JOB! Thanks for posting back. Could you mark the verify answer(s) that helped you solve your problem, so if someone else searches the forums, they can see what you did to fix your problem(s).

Thanks,

Rick