Hi Installed Ubuntu 10.04 this afternoon.

Unable to get a wireless connection.

Presently I have:

HP Pavilion dv4
Running Windows Vista 64 bit on primary partition
Downloaded Ubuntu 10.04

Problem:

1. I have no wireless connections listed.
2. When I press the wireless notification button on the laptop does not change colour. Stays Orange.

Any and all help would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance,

Paul

what kind of chip is that ?
Atheros 802.11n that would use ath9k ?
if that's it i can help
you basically have two choices
either upgrade the driver using compat-wireless or just build a whole knew more moderrn kernel

Hello empty_mirror, welcome to LQ,

to check which module is needed please post the output ofPlease post as well the output of If you need further help with your network-setup we'll need more information about your network, if you're not familiar with this, boot Vista, open the cmd and post the output ofMarkus

For lspci -k | grep -iA5 wire

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless
LAN Controller (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconducter Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E P
CI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169


For iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

From Vista was there something in particular you were looking for? Sorry still a newbie but when I did the ipconfig /all it gave a great deal of information.

Your Wlan-adapter on the Laptop is not yet been started. Look at the documentation of Ubuntu and find out 1. if there is an appropriate driver in the Ubuntu-repository for your Broadcom-card and 2. how to start the wireless network.

Markus

Markus,

THANK YOU for the help thus far.

I shall look in the Ubuntu-repository, and post my progress.

Paul

broadcom -- cool
your in luck there is a pre built package that is a part of ubuntu
i have no idea how ubuntu works but here are the instructions
apt-get update
apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
System > Administration > Hardware/Additional Drivers, the STA drivers can be activated for use.
reboot or
modprobe -r b43 ssb wl
modprobe wl

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oh yea forgot no wifi no apt get
the package is on the install disk
../pool/restricted/b/bcmwl
if you use a gui then it should automajically figure out all the needed junk
other wise if you have to do it the "old fashioned" way
you need the stuff to build a kernel module
namely
dkms
patch
and
fakeroot

AND

THANK YOU!

I was able to get a wired connection and when I did that I was able to get to the System--> Administration --> Hardware/Additional Drivers and was able to activate them. HAPPY AS A CLAM! THANK YOU!