no non è un problema di password, almeno non per il momento, non riesco nemmeno a rilevare reti wireless nelle vicinanze, cm ti posto l'output dei comandi

grazie

#lspci
codice:
09:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
#ifconfig
codice:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:36:DD:4E:F0  
          inet addr:192.168.1.150  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::216:36ff:fedd:4ef0/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:52655 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:39536 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:3 carrier:0
          collisions:16 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:54801859 (52.2 MiB)  TX bytes:4550804 (4.3 MiB)
          Interrupt:21 Base address:0x8000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:5919 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5919 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:5504749 (5.2 MiB)  TX bytes:5504749 (5.2 MiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:E3:BE:37:40  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-16-E3-BE-37-40-08-40-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)