I just picked up a ps3 this weekend and its pretty freakin sweet.

I went into the network settings and did the network setup to setup a wireless connection but my ps3 can't pickup any connections and can't see any SSIDs. My laptop works just fine with the connection I'm using and I even took out my psp and that picks up mutiple access points with varying encryption from none to WEP etc.
I even pulled up all the info on my psp with the connect it was using and manually put in all the info into the ps3. that didn't work at all and the ps3 can't get an IP address.
I had a friend suggest to get a thumb drive and upgrade to the newest firmware and that could solve the issue.
any of you guys have any suggestions?