I presumed that OC was using another one of her router/modem ports to use the internet from a different machine, and I suggested to her to try that lead in her ASUS (careful how I spell that). I had to fix this for someone using the same kneetop and linux only last week, and it turned out that the WEP key on the bottom of her router was not the right key - the key was in fact her AOL password. While this wouldn't connect it gave a dchp error which said something was "sleeping" but it was not obvious that the key was wrong. It was only when I researched the error that I saw that for the majority that people had reported the problem, it had been about not entering the WEP correctly and I worked from that basis. My neighbours in question had not been able to use their PS3 or NDS' because of this, and as soon as it was worked out all of those things got a connection. Simple solution to a problem they have had for over 8 months.