Setting up a working wireless card
 

I just recently got my ipw2200 card working, but Im unsure how I am supposed to go about connecting to my home network. My ESSID is CorHome. iwconfig brings up the following:

eth1
unassociated ESSID: CorHome Nickname: slackbox
Mode: Managed Channel: 6 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate = 0kb/s
RTS thr: off
Encryption key: (edited) Security Mode Restricted
Power Management: off

How do I get this working? I entered all of the appropriate options, but it just wont connect.

Perhaps your channel is setup incorrectly. Try to figure out the channel of your wireless access point and then use "iwconfig eth1 channel #". Also it looks like you have some sort of security mode set on your access point. I might shut this off get the two to talk to each other then turn security back on again.

Ok, well, I figured out what was wrong. I apparently had to press the Fn key and F2 to enable my wireless card. However, now that I have done that and connected to my home network, a few other hitches have arisen. First, it seems that when I am "using" my wireless connection, my computer slows down to a crawl. If I type a word, it slowly appears 1 letter at a time. Also, another problem is that my link quality appears to be very poor - a 3/100 to be exact. I cant even ping a simple website. I also seem to have a high level of "Missed Beacon", whatever that is...