I am feeling quite humiliated. I am visiting friends and am unable to set up a wireless connection to their router. My wireless troubleshooting skills appear to be rusty already. They moved in June 2010 and have a new combination ADSL modem/wireless router supplied by Bell Canada. It is a "2wire Gateway" model 2701HG-G. My netbook has a built-in AtherosAR2985 adapter and uses the ath9k driver. (At home, I use a cablemodem and a separate Asus RTN-11 802.11n router.) I have not previously experienced problems logging into my own home network or into other people's home networks (with appropriate SSID and password); I have not always succeeded at commercial hotspots (coffee shops and the like). I am using Kubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 and have brought the system up-to-date within the last 4-5 days. We have controlled for "keyboarding errors": each of us has read back the broadcast SSID and the WEP key on the router to match against the key entered in knetworkmanager. Do I have the parameters right for this kind of hybrid Bell modem/router?The settings are: Mode: Infrastructure MTU: Automatic Security: WEP Key type: Hex or Ascii (*_not_* a passphrase) Key: 26 decimal digits WEP Index: 1 Authentication: Shared key I suspect a configuration error on my part. Until I can figure it out, I am reduced to using their XP box. Their modem/router has only the one Ethernet downlink. Does anyone see an obvious error? or know of connection problems with this line of modem/routers? Thanks in advance for your patience with so elementary a problem. Bruce -- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada bruce [ at ] brmiller [ dot ] ca; (613) 745-1151 Just when you think your software is idiot proof, somebody comes up with a better idiot Keyboard not found...Press any key to continue.