Problem connecting to Wlan

Mmmm there could be several reasons:

-maybe your router is filtering on MAC addresses, but if this laptop already connects on it from Windows, that should not be a problem. But it's the first time this laptop tries to connect, there is maybe something to do on the router to add this MAC address

-maybe Ubuntu does not identify your network security settings properly. So you would have to change the settings manually (like using WPA instead of WEP for instance). Seems quite unlikely... But worth checking maybe.

-another possibility: you think you are typing your password properly, but the keyboard settings are not the ones you think they are. Open a text editor, type your password, and see if it's actually what it should be.

-finally, maybe a driver problem...

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network

Thanks

You may find that if you use WPA that it cannot be used, not all wireless adapters can use WPA under linux. You could try using wEP in your router instead just to test.

The router is already running wep. It connects fine with windows and other linux distos. I currently have backtrack and windows. I was wanting to get rid of backtrack and have ubuntu. Windows and backtrack both connect to the router just fine. I will try opening the txt editor to make sure the keyboard is set right. If its a driver problem. What will it take to fix? The network adapter i have is the AR5007EG. Remember want to try live usb first.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1009618

Well I got it to connect, but the connection is really slow. Below is the result of sudo lshw -C network

  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:11:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:1b:38:46:6f:1b
       size: 10MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
       resources: irq:43 ioport:a000(size=256) memory:f8300000-f8300fff memory:c4400000-c441ffff
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:17:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:1b:9e:52:1e:1e
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath5k driverversion=2.6.35-22-generic firmware=N/A ip=10.0.0.7 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
       resources: irq:19 memory:f8200000-f820ffff

You have an IP address on the wireless: 10.0.0.7

If you run:

ping 8.8.8.8

Does it ping ok over the wireless connection?