Wireless card active, no connection to Internet

[Todd Johnson]

Richard S. Crawford wrote:

>After much grief with ndiswrapper and with my own inability to follow 
>directions about how to enter a WEP key properly, I finally have my wireless 
>card up and running.  wlan0 activates just fine, and when I try to view my 
>wireless connection  in kwifimanager, I see that my local SSID is seen and 
>that there's a strong signal.
>
>However, it simply won't connect.  I've tried everything I can think of, 
>including disabling WEP, and nothing seems to get this card talking to the 
>Internet.  I can't even ping my default gateway, 192.168.1.1.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>  
>
If you are using fc3 try NetworkManager.  ndiswrapper's wiki has some 
information on setting it up.