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																														s'unya wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm busy trying to shift towards linux (from windows) having had no 
> exposure
> before...so I have setup a box to test out various versions. so far so 
> good.
> Having no idea which flavour to go for, I have looked at PCLinuxOS and I
> have looked at the latest SUSE as well, both seem very good compared to
> windows... neither of which, however, can I get to connect to the 
> wireless
> router, hence the internet or our network.
>
> So, question, should I go for a different linux or how do I get one of 
> these
> to work? The problem is that the only internet connection for the 
> machine is
> via wireless (though I can download via widows and burn to cd). I sort of
> understand the whole setup, but there are so many paradigms that leave 
> me a
> little lost... In suse I can't seem to set up the encryption etc, but 
> it has
> some useful tools that I would like to use in PCLos where I can set up 
> the
> wireless encryption....etc I feel like maybe I'm missing stuff.
>
S'unya, try posting this to the bristol linux user group. Sign up here:

https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bristol

my first advice would be to try running /sbin/ifconfig to see whether 
your wireless card (usually identified as wlan0) is indeed working. try 
to find out the chipset and whether it's supported. this may be a good 
place to start:

http://www.linux-drivers.org/network.html

you'll need to provide a lot more information than the above to get much 
from the brislug lot, but they'll let you know what they need and how to 
get it if you ask.

Ray