Wifi with squeeze on Lenovo X61s laptop - difficulties

["poenikatu@operamail.com" <poenikatu@operamail.com>]

Well, I tried wicd again and now it sits in the gnome-panel but tells
me that there is no
network interface.

I have now gone through all the commands given in the
WirelessTroubleshootinjg file in the
Ubuntu help system.

lspci detects the Wifi 3945 device
lsmod shows iwl3945
iwlist scan shows wlan0 channel 8 Link quality 32/70 correct ESSID no
acceess point
rfkill list -- no such command
iwconfig wlan0 channel 8 works, but iwconfig wlan0 shows no access
point.
dhclient wlan0 does not work -- had to ^C it.
ping -c 4 127.0.0.1 works
ping -c 4 192.168.11.26 gives Network unreachable
iproute2 -- command not found

So, it appears that the device driver is loaded, one of the iwlwifi
firmware files is known
the network device is known, bu still no connection.

I am posting this message using Ubuntu 11.10 on the same laptop as the
Debian system.