Wireless Woes

[YaymeQ]

I have an odd problem. (Odd to me) I've looked it up online and everything I find is for windows. I have windows and linux on my computer. The wireless connection works fine on windows. It used to work fine in linux. (So I know it's not a hardware/drivers type of problem) We changed the router from automatic dhcp to static IP. I changed the information in windows and it worked fine. I changed it in linux and now it shows my signal strength is great, but anything that requires the internet cannot connect. I have xubuntu, with the xfce desktop environment. It came with gnomes network manager. It WAS working. I can't even begin to think of what the problem is. I know I could switch it back to automatic ... but there was a reason we switched it in the first place. So does anyone have any idea how I could get back online in linux with a static IP address? Is there a special button I'm missing? (I don't know how you'd know if there was ...) Thanks for all the help.

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

I think there is a save or apply button in the wireless manager. I remember when I was using Ubuntu I would have to apply the setting before it worked.

[YaymeQ]

I thought that might be the case and looked for one (Because when I was first setting it up I hadn't actually clicked "Connect to wireless network" after entering the information ... silly me) So I looked for some tiny thing button or option that might be eluding me but I couldn't find one. (It does seem to be the only logical solution to my limited knowledge though) so you wouldn't happen to know *where* said button might be???? *smiles and bats eyelashes*

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

Do you have all of the correct details?

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ubuntu-networking-configuration-using-graphical-tool.html

I found this thread on an ubuntu forum.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=370220