Originally posted by: Steelerz37
i got it fixed 🙂 turns out it was something to do with the wired ethernet being setup first, whether avalible or not, kept the wireless from getting dns, and gateway. I set the wired to manual and now it works great 🙂 Thanks for all the help. I have another question though. I am trying to get my touchpad to work correctly and I found drivers called tpconfig. It needs to be run under console only. How do I get out of X and just to console? I tried the Cntrl + Alt + Backspace which kills X but restarts it automatically.
kill xdm, gdm, or kdm (depending on which one is running), then kill X.