eepc waste of money

I actually dont want it for anything :) Just bought it to see if it might be usefull for some of my customers! For mobile customers, the size and cost of these things cant be beat. Give a tech a laptop and he will break it. Give him an EeePC and he will also break it, but at least the EeePC is cheap. Be a great tool for programming/configuring/diagnosing embedded hardware devices.

No DHCPOFFERS received.

No need to use the terminal, the UI works just fine.

Tried turing off all encryption on the router. Checked the DHCP server on the router, plenty of addresses available.

Just bought a new laptop for the yacht club, came with vista home premium. Turned it on, pointed it to wireless connection and hit connect. Worked first time. Definately a problem with the EeePC. Checking the Eee forums suggests that I am not alone. No doubt there is an answer in there but have run out of time to play with it at the moment.

BTW. Totally OT, but I need a laptop with ubuntu, can anyone point me to a particular model that will involve the least amount of work to install?

booted into the bios first time ever and noticed wireless was disabled. funny, beause the blue wireless light was on. boot into linux, set up wireless connection to use wep again, this time i set key number explicitly and now it connects. not sure if it was key number, because i tried with no encryption and still did not work