Okay hi. I have had Linux Ubuntu for 3 days and I love it. Howerver, I am unable to set up the intenet.

From the Desktop I follow System>Adminstration>Networking

I have a wireless card in my PC so i click Properties on it.

I then see a screen where it asks me to put in My....
ESSID
WEP

I think i know my IP address and my Subnet and Gateway.

How to I obtain my WEP and ESSID??

Im really confused and I need to connect the Internet! Also.... Am i doing the right thing or am i supposed to configure it somewhere else?

Thanks in advance all help will appreciated.


Chazyd

The ESSID is the name of your wireless network. (You would have set this when you configured your wireless router.) The WEP key is the password selected if you enabled WEP security on your network. (This can be an ASCII equivalent password or a hex equivalent password depending on your router. If you don't have WEP or another security measure enabled, you won't need anything in this field.) Assuming you have configured your router correctly, you will need to enter the configuration of your router and determine these values.

I'm not sure how you are connecting to the internet, but you probably won't need to know your IP address, Subnet, or Gateway. Try DHCP first.

I hope this helps, but you would stand to benefit from reading one of the Linux Networking how-to's as well as a Wireless Networking how-to available on a quick search of Google.