*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02: 00.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 02
serial: 00:1b:77:2b: ab:ab
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwl3945 latency=0 module=iwl3945
multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg

I clipped the network section only. Your network is disabled. It looks to me
that you need a driver. You can use ndiswrapper to use a Windows driver. To do
this, you need to install ndiswrapper and ndisgtk from the repositories using
Synaptic. Once installed you run ndisgtk from your Administration menu. You need
to insert your Windows driver and then locat the .inf file on the disk. It will
load the Windows driver and make a module for you. Once done, re-boot. The other
option is to try to locate a Linux driver for your particular card.

I am not exactly a network guru. Others have more exp[ertise than I. However, I
have used ndiswrapper successfully on my netbook with some distributions.
Wireless is one of those areas where Linux needs more cooperation from OEMs.