Arduino Wifi Sheild Not Working

Hey Everyone,

So I have the official Arduino Wi-Fi Shield and Arduino Uno Board (R3) and I am unable to connect to both the network at my home and the one at my school.

When using the scan example from the Arduino site, both places it is unable to find any available networks, and when trying to directly to either network, each a different type of encryption, one is WEP and the other is WPA, it fails at both places.

When using the Arduino, all times the Wi-Fi shield does not have the LEDs on, I have read that the scan example does not have the LEDs turn on, but even the connecting doesn't have them turn on. The red ERROR LED does not turn on at all and neither does the green LINK LED.

I am using the example codes from here: http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/ArduinoWiFiShield.

I am still able to use the basic things like the LED and such through the Wi-Fi shield, so the pins work and connect through the Wi-Fi shield to the Arduino, it is just the Wi-Fi that is not working (which is the main part of it).

Thanks for the help!

Is the Arduino an R3 model?