whats the next step

[ubermensch]

Ok, I have been trying to get this working for some time, I though that maybe a fresh start would help relieve some frustration.

I'm running an IBM t40.
My computer will detect all networks in range and connect to non-secure networks. My home network has WEP security and my computer will not connect. It will begin to connect but fail every time. I have tried typing retyping connecting reconnecting in every combination. I thought maybe the problem could be the driver, and this may still be the issue, but after hours of work I still have not managed to find the .inf file in windows xp necessary for the use of ndiswrapper so I am calling that a dead end. ( I have downloaded the driver installer from the hardware provider, and have tryed installing ever .inf in the unpacked .exe to no avail, also I have also searched all over windows xp for some sign of this .inf file but no win here either) Where do I start, here is my mintwifi output, I am currently connected to a non-secure public network.
PS. This problem existed when I first installed ubunto in its 6.10 incarnation. When I installed the beta 7.0 version It worked perfectly. A few weeks ago I wanted to try kde mint linux, to see what its like and this problem started. Even reinstalling ubunto feisty has not fixed this problem. I have seen others with this problem on the ubunto message board but no one ever responds.

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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- AIRONET Wireless Communications Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b
==> PCI ID = 14b9:a504
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"LA TAZZA FRESCA"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:04:E2:7D:D9:7B
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=95/100 Signal level=-48 dBm Noise level=-97 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:254076 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:987204 Missed beacon:3

wifi0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"LA TAZZA FRESCA"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:04:E2:7D:D9:7B
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=95/100 Signal level=-48 dBm Noise level=-97 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:254077 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:987204 Missed beacon:3

irda0 no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:60:2F:9A:8A
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)
Base address:0x8400 Memory:c0220000-c0240000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:8A:BA:CC:5D
inet addr:192.168.2.127 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11488 errors:137418 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:137418
TX packets:11216 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:277 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:8676702 (8.2 MiB) TX bytes:2760667 (2.6 MiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000

eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:60:2F:9A:8A
inet addr:169.254.6.117 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Base address:0x8400 Memory:c0220000-c0240000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:8757 (8.5 KiB) TX bytes:8757 (8.5 KiB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wifi0/
Sending on LPF/wifi0/
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:02:8a:ba:cc:5d
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:02:8a:ba:cc:5d
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0d:60:2f:9a:8a
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0d:60:2f:9a:8a
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.2.1
DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.2.1
bound to 192.168.2.127 -- renewal in 21144 seconds.
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.2.1
Address: 192.168.2.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 64.233.187.99
Name: google.com
Address: 72.14.207.99
Name: google.com
Address: 64.233.167.99

[900i]

Have you worked your way through this guide

http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php/MintWifi

It's the way most people get a result.