Help! Wifi wont connect

[TRSchmidtty]

Hello all ty in advance for helping. I am running a asus 1000he with the atheros ne771 wireless. i recently installed bt4 r1 on it and at a stand still when it comes to why this wont connect wifi. I open up my wicd manager and can see wireless networks, i try to connect to mine and i sit at obtaining ip address. I have turned off all security on my router(wep,wpa) and have dhcp enabled. I have read thru the forums, searched the forums and alas googled the hell out of this. But i must be missing something. My 1000he uses ar928x wireless chip( aw-ne771) with ath9k kernel drivers. Is this correct? should i be using other drivers from madwifi? From what i have read other have no issue of getting this wireless card to work on other models of eepcs.
i run command ifconfig and iwconfig and this is what i get

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:8c:29:75:e5
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:431 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:9
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:361326 (361.3 KB) TX bytes:42272 (42.2 KB)
Interrupt:28

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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:600 (600.0 B) TX bytes:600 (600.0 B)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:af:df:a1:d3
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:2016 (2.0 KB)

root@bt:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz
Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff

Once again i have read the how to networking and it provided no answer to my problem. To my knowledge that the how to is used for bt4 final users as the bt4 r1 has networking already set up.
So what am i missing! I hope this not a no brainer... Thanks once again in advance. I will be watching this thread all day so any help will be much apprciated and i will respond quickly!

[TRSchmidtty]

ok i have done some more research, from what i have read ath9k drivers should run it with no problem. i have turned on my networking. When i plug it in with ethernert i get past obtaining ip address instantly. But when i switch to wireless i get stuck on obtaining ip and get no further.my interfaces folder looks normal compared to the how to networking guide.I have tried other networks same thing. My linux experince is moderate. so i have to just be missing something stupid easy. Not looking for the answer maybe just some help in the right direction. thanks again

[LlamaLlamaLamp]

I'm new to Linux but I've quickly learnt not to trust wicd so lets try and rule that out by connecting manually. Firstly, well done with disabling encryption on your router, thats a good troubleshooting step.

Try these commands:
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 Managed
iwconfig wlan0 essid YourAccessPointName
iwconfig wlan0 key off
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhclient wlan0

[gunrunr]

root@bt:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz
Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff

so then just connect with the command line, it almost always works

iwconfig wlan0 essid youressidhere
dhclient wlan0

that should have it connect, tell me if it works, and if it doesn't tell us what error msg you get in return!

[TRSchmidtty]

Woot! it worked! thanks for the help must just be a wicd problem