Broadband connection

orchidsrpretty

Hope I'm in the right place for this question. I have one of those Asus laptop things and I am trying to connect it wirelessy to my router(perlico) but its not working. It gets as far as pending and then does nothing. I have rang perlico and they couldn't help me as they don't support Linux or something like that and told me to google it, which I did.

I have no clue whatsoever about computers, the results that I fould made absolutely no sense to me, so was wondering if anyone else has this problem and how did they fix it, in layman terms.

thanks in advance.

PogMoThoin

Is it the eee pc you got or what linux os are u using?

orchidsrpretty

Yep, its the eee pc, not sure what version, I only got it about 3 weeks ago so I guess the newest one. Its the 4 gig model, I only got it so I could use the net wirelessy so its such a pain!:o

PogMoThoin

This might help You, make sure you know your encryption key and whether its WEP or WPA.

HTH

Pog

orchidsrpretty

thanks for that, tried it last night- and the error message I have been getting is "No working leases in persistent database" what- ever that means!
I googled it and it seems like there is alot on info on it- just none I can understand!:o

GreenHell

What linux distro you running?

Is your wifi card being picked up?

From command line as root or sudo do this

ifconfig -a

You should see a wlan0 if your wifi card is being picked up.

You can use wifiradar to connect to your router, which should be available from standard yum repo or apt-get.

If you don't see wlan0

Do

lspci

You should see the type of wireless card you have.