WiFi Only Connects Using Shell, GUI Fails on Fiesty 7.04 / Dell 1350 WiFi Card

pr0gr4mm3r · 07-10-2007, 04:28 PM

This one has me puzzled. I am making this post through my WiFi connection on my Ubuntu 7.04 Laptop, even though the network manager says I'm not connected to anything.

I used this tutorial on getting my Dell 1350 WiFi card driver installed and functional, but I have to type the following commands in the shell to get the card connected to my wireless network.

Code:

sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid Home
sudo dhclient wlan0

After running that, I get this output indicating that it worked.

Code:

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:d1:fd:90
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:d1:fd:90
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
bound to 192.168.0.6 -- renewal in 123914 seconds.

When I try to use the GUI application that now sits on my tray, it will sit there and try to connect to 'Home' (my WiFi SSID) for a couple minutes, and then fail. When I try to connect to my wired network, it does it without a problem.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

donnied · 07-10-2007, 08:43 PM

I'm sorry I can't give any advice. I have a similar problem on Feisty. I have to do the ifconfig and iwconfig manually when logging into my home network.