Hey guys,
I was trying to configure wireless network on my ubuntu machine but could not do it. I am possibly stuck as I don't know much about configuring things on linux platforms.

Any help on it will be highly appreciated.

thanks in advance.

What did you try? What error messages did you get? What type of wireless card? USB, PCMCIA, internal? What version of ubuntu? If you want help, you need to bring something to the table: information.

Hi,

Provide us with what you have attempted and then maybe someone will be able to assist.

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@ brucehinrichs,
I have windows 7 also installed on my machine and wireless internet works perfectly fine on it.The wireless card is inbuilt.While the wireless icon on the top taskbar on Ubuntu always says "Disconnected-working offline",although the internet works perfectly fine with the wired networks(eth0).

I also tried the "/sbin/ifconfig" which gave me some description about the eth0 and "lo" about which I have no idea.
What I feel is that some drivers are missing 'cause otherwise the net won't connect even on the windows platform(the wireless card is present inbuilt...).
If that is the case or any other thing please let me know as its pretty urgent for me to start things up.

Thanking again.

You are still not giving much information. If you have windows installed, you could check the hardware configuration and give the make and model of the wireless chip. This will help finding the right driver for Ubuntu. It is possible, if you are using new Lucid, that drivers are already included. You just need to configure it properly.
You should also do:

lspci -vv on Ubuntu and paste the output. Also iwconfig and paste the output here.
Can you left click on network icon in Ubuntu and see if you see any wireless network list?

@ linuxlover.chaitanya here r the details u asked for:
1. This was what I cud gather about the make and model of wireless chip on windows:

driver version: 4.176.75.21
broadcom 802.11g network adapter
driver provider: Microsoft
Digital signer: Microsoft windows
Location PCI Slot5(PCI bus 7,device 0,function 0)
Driver File version:
4.176.75.18

2.on ubuntu,giving lscpi -vv gavei m giving a part of output):

05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30cd
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 2298
Region 0: Memory at f4200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Region 2: I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: sky2
Kernel modules: sky2

07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1375
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
Region 0: Memory at f4300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: wl, ssb


and iwconfig gave:

manas@manas-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

pan0 no wireless extensions.


3.When I left click on the icon it shows the following options:
a. enable networking(I've checked it.)
b. enable wireless.I've checked it.
c.connection information(faded and I can't click on it.)
d.edit connections.
e. about


4. When I right click on it:
a.Wired networks(faded can't click)
b.wireless networks(again faded)
c.VPN connections
d.connect to hidden wireless networks.
e.create new wireless networks.

I ve tried the last option and given the same details as in windows but still not connected..

Can u make something out of it and help?

thanks.

You sure are missing something. The drivers are loaded and wireless card has been detected. And you can see that from the iwconfig.
Can you right click on the network and edit connections and see what you get. I do not have wireless on the current desktop. Will try to get hands on some and let you know.

Connecting to wireless network is quite easy. Just left click on the network icon and if the card is properly configured, and if it can find any wireless networks around, you will get the list of the networks. Click one you want to connect to and bingo you are done. If its a secured one, you need passphrase for it.
But the one I am testing on is Dell Vostro 1014 with Atheros chip and is working in Live Mode and not installed. And testing with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid.