Need help accessing a wireless connection from my laptop.

Fabyfakid · 11-26-2007, 06:17 AM

I'm using feisty, and my computer's an HP Pavilion ze2000. It connects by pressing a button (on Windows). However, on Linux that button appears to not be recognized, as it doesn't "turn on" by pressing it. Any help?

w3bd3vil · 11-26-2007, 07:07 AM

You would need to install your drivers for your wireless card.
Refer here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-card.-602289/
on how to figure out what drivers you have.

Fabyfakid · 11-26-2007, 08:19 AM

Thanks, this is what I got:

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00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 81)

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI (rev 80)

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)

00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 80)

00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SB400 - AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)

05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

05:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller

Fabyfakid · 11-26-2007, 10:05 AM

The internet connection is the one from campus. Just went over to the syst. adm.'s to see if knew what could be going on, and he confirmed that it's that button function. I don't know exactly which components in the hardware info section are the ones involved in it.

w3bd3vil · 11-27-2007, 11:50 AM

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and he confirmed that it's that button function

Well, your system admin must be a windows expert and not a linux one!

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05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

This is what you are looking for.
So you have the Broadcom chipset. You would now need to install the drivers for this.

Go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Dr...reinstallation
and search the forums with b43 or bcm43xx on detailed installation instructions