My wifi config is here, having problems connecting

[aroute]

Hi, below is my config.

I have Linksys E1000 Wireless router with WPA2 Personal security enabled. My problem is that when I type my password (which is 8 char), the Linux connect box stays greyed out. I have gone through a lot of Googling by now and have managed to come this far (my wireless card initially was not detected during Mint installation).

I am on old laptop (Compaq Evo N410c) with PCMCIA card Linksys Wireless-G WPC54G ver2 (detected, as mentioned below).

Please help me setup Wireless connection. I have everything else working fine. I broke my main laptop and I am on a backup here.

Thanks in advance.

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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
      ==> PCI ID = 104c:9066
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
lstinds : driver installed
	device (104C:9066) present
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* III. querying iwconfig...
wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:10 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3  
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:d0:59:c6:97:66  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

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:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:14512 (14.5 KB)  TX bytes:14512 (14.5 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:17:b1:3d:4c  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:11 Memory:28020000-28022000 

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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

[JeremyB]

Have you tried changing the router settings to only allow b/g in network mode instead of b/g/n. Maybe setting up a temp guest network with no security just to test?

[aroute]

I tried your suggestion mentioned below. It didn't work. The connect button stays greyed out. Here is a strange thing: my passphrase is 8 characters, but if I delete 3 from it, then the connect button on Mint shows up. However, I can't set the passphrase to 5 characters in my router. So the question is, why does Mint needs 5 characters for a Wifi passphrase? Is there anywhere I can go to check on settings?

Have you tried changing the router settings to only allow b/g in network mode instead of b/g/n. Maybe setting up a temp guest network with no security just to test?

[JeremyB]

I think you must have set it up for 40 bit WEP security rather than WPA/WPA2 personal in your PC network settings, you should be able to search your menu for network for the network connections program and change the security