wireless problems, medion md96500

[Guest]

hi,
I'm really new to linux, and have quite a major problem. I'm using a medion MD96500 and cant get the wireless to work. I used to have ubuntu installed, and i did get it working then, using the acerhk appliance. The problem is, i cant remember how I did it! Now, when following the guide at http://znote4200.linux.dk/ (as far as i'm aware the 2 laptops are pretty identical) I can no longer get any results.

I checked dmesg and originally found the RF killswitch was on, no matter what i did with acerhk. If i go into the BIOS and change wireless mode to last state, then the killswitch is no longer on, but it still doesnt work. Below are my iwconfig and ifconfig's.
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 unassociated ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

(NB before, with the killswitch on, "radio off" was added before unassociated)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E4:AD:F3:C2
inet addr:192.168.1.67 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e4ff:fead:f3c2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2318 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1652 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1149260 (1.0 MB) TX bytes:241508 (235.8 KB)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0xa000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:00:1A:E9:79
inet6 addr: fe80::215:ff:fe1a:e979/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:47662 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6446 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0x4000 Memory:c8006000-c8006fff

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Any help or advice would be appreciated! thanks

[Guest]

Re: wireless problems, medion md96500

hey i looked a bit further, and i think i've been very stupid. the wireless is working fine, however for some reason it wont let me connect to managed networks... any advice? i found out using kwifi manager btw, and it will allow me to connect ad-hoc...
thanks