wireless internet on laptop.

zeusthegod3

so i got thsi new netbook or notebook idk but its a small laptop. i installed linux for one on it. my wireless seems to not work. it says wireless connection and then it says device not managed? so im like wtf. i installed it on my friends and it shows him the connections near him, so why wont minE? plz help

mfillpot

Can you please give the specifics as to what make/model of notebook you are using and which distro you installed?

vonbiber

can you display the result of each of these 3 commands (from a console/terminal):

dmesg | grep -i wireless
cat /proc/net/wireless
ifconfig -a

What distribution did you install?