The router is not secured by password but instead by inclusion by MAC address.
I got the MAC address for the HP netbook by using ifconfig (or something like
that) they showed the MAC address for eth0 and eth1. eth1 was identified by name
in one of the lines, so I added that MAC address to the inclusion list and tried
it. In the chance that I have the wrong MAC address, I turned off all that
feature in the router to make it completely unsecured. Still, no dice. I've
been booted in Ubuntu for onyl a few hours, so I haven't had the chance to see
if it will connect to a router somewhere else.