Ok. Here's the basics. ----older laptop, dell 600 . Intel 2200 GB wireless card I believe. Sees my router, won't take the WPA key. I've done quite a bit of forum browsing and I noticed my channel is set to 0. I have 1-11 available but can't seem to change it. Any ideas would be helpful. Thank you.
sudo iwlist eth1 auth
eth1 Authentication capabilities : WPA WPA2 CIPHER-TKIP CIPHER-CCMP Current TKIP countermeasures : yes Current Drop unencrypted : yes Current Authentication algorithm : Current Receive unencrypted EAPOL : no Current Roaming control : yes Current Privacy invoked : yes
also ran
sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
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