My wireless network not in Network Manager

[martinmoche]

Dear Linux Community,

I recently made an Ubuntu 8.10 partition on my windows XP Latitude E5400.
Using windows xp I can connect to my dlink wireless network that is not protected.
Using Ubuntu 8.10 I can connect to my neighbours wireless non-protected network, however my own dlink network is not shown in network manager and I can not connect to it?

I am very new to Linux and needs advice on what to try.

Best regards,

Martin

[stevie_b]

Hi Martin,

Some things to try:
1) Is your router set to broadcast the network name (the ESSID)? If not, then it *might* not appear in Ubuntu's network manager.
2) I've had all kinds of problems trying to connect to wireless networks using both wicd and the gnome network manager. On two very different systems, I've found a way that works reliably on both, described here. It edits the "interfaces" file by hand: nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't use the graphical interface of a network manager (which may be a good or a bad thing, depending on your viewpoint! )