I can now see and connect to my wireless router, but still cannot connect to the internet through my browser. the system was able to download the driver for my video card though.
Attached is a screenshot of my network manager information
iwconfig output
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 802.11bg ESSID:"belkin54g" Nickname:"rtl8191SEVA2"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.417 GHz Access Point: 00:30:BD:FC:9B:B3
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
Retry
n RTS thr
ff Fragment thr
ff
Power Management
ff
Link Quality=88/100 Signal level=-61 dBm Noise level=-114 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
ifconfig output
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 88:ae:1d:52:31:60
inet addr:192.168.2.6 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::8aae:1dff:fe52:3160/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:40067 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:21856 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:58464953 (58.4 MB) TX bytes:2352730 (2.3 MB)
Interrupt:27 Base address:0xa000
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:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1490 (1.4 KB) TX bytes:1490 (1.4 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 70:f1:a1:d5:f3:e6
inet addr:192.168.2.4 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::72f1:a1ff:fed5:f3e6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2334 (2.3 KB) TX bytes:4941 (4.9 KB)
Interrupt:18 Memory:ffffc900112e8000-ffffc900112e8100
Any suggestions?