[Cialug] Install of Ubuntu 11.04

[David Champion]

If you want to poke around on the command line... here's a couple of things
you could look at:

Type "dmesg | less", and page through that for info on your wireless
adapter, probably called something like wlan0.

Once you figure out the device name, you can try:

iwconfig wlan0

This will show you if it's connected to anything. Ideally it will show the
MAC address of your wifi access point.

To manually connect:

iwconfig wlan0 essid <your ap's essid>

iwconfg wlan0 enc <your encryption key>

iwconfig wlan0

If this is successful, you'd now see your AP's MAC address.

I haven't had much luck with Ubuntu's wireless config tool myself.

-dc

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> I installed the above version of Ubuntu on my Acer laptop.  It did not
>> automatically configure a wireless connection for me and when I attempt to
>> configure  a connection to my home network I am unable to save the
>> configuration.  I must be skipping something in the setup because the save
>> button is always grayed out and not available.
>>
>> I entered my wireless network SSID and BSSID and also tried to enter a
>> route to see if that was what was missing but nothing I have entered up to
>> this point has allowed the save button to be available so that the profile
>> can be saved.  I also entered the WEP key but that did not help either.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>>
> It is possible that your wifi card needs a non-open source driver. If
> possible, what I would suggest is connecting temporarily using ethernet and
> install any updates, then run the "hardware drivers" program. I'm not
> running Unity at the moment so am going from memory but if you type in the
> search box "drivers" you should see it pop open.
>
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