First of all, you have to bind your card against the network, this can be done with "iwconfig". For example, if you have a network called "MYWIFI" without encryption you have to do: # iwconfig wlan0 essid MYWIFI # dhclient wlan0 If you have WEP/WPA it is a little bit hard... I recommend you to read http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse -- Saludos, Roberto De Oliveira