New User - need network help please

[Lend27]

I installed properly but networking isn't functioning:
If I click on the wicd network manager icon, then click on refresh, it finds my wireless networks.
When I select the network I want to connect to, it says it requires encryption. I enter the password, then click connect.
It then goes through the process and on the last step, authorizing, it times out and disconnects.
I am entering the password correctly.

This is my first attempt at Slackware.

Also, my wired connection will not connect either.

I know it must be me, missing something. I am very familiar with linux including debian,arch,ubuntu etc.
I just need help getting my networks properly configured. I must be missing something small, but not sure what that is

Thanks in advance for your help.
Len

Screenshots that might help:

http://imgur.com/Fh9A3tY
http://imgur.com/fgZoUkS

[gapan]

Obvious questions:
1. Are you sure you're entering the password correctly?
2. Are you sure your network uses WPA encryption? It could be using WEP encryption and you're trying to connect with WPA. The ones in your screenshot all show WPA, but could you be trying to connect to another network that is not visible in that screenshot?

Also post the output of:

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sudo ifconfig -a

as well as the output of:

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sudo lspci

from a terminal.

[mimosa]

Also, is the password a "passphrase" or "hex"? There is a different option to select accordingly, in wicd's preferences for that wireless signal.

Another thing that may affect the wired connection (though from the sound of it, not the wireless one) is whether wicd sees the connection as eth0 (wlan0, for wirelss) or eth1, or possibly even something else. This is set in the main preferences, so for instance, where you see eth0 there, try changing it to eth1. Remember to change it back if it doesn't help.