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02-11-2009, 03:51 PM
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n00b: How to turn on wireless, ubuntu?
Is there a command for turning on wireless. I can see on my computer that the wireless is not on.
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02-11-2009, 03:56 PM
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Which wireless card are you using?
Did you installed some drivers for the card?
what i the output from
Often there is a switch or key combination to enable wireless.
Which computer? |
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02-11-2009, 04:07 PM
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Which wireless card are you using?
Did you installed some drivers for the card?
what i the output from
Often there is a switch or key combination to enable wireless.
Which computer? |
I have a Atheros Ar5bxb63 wireless card.
I think it have installed it.
the output is this:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
pan0 no wireless extensions.
I have an Asus X51L. |
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02-11-2009, 04:09 PM
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02-11-2009, 04:17 PM
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02-11-2009, 04:19 PM
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02-11-2009, 04:31 PM
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I did all of the thing until step 11, where I have to Configure network. When I press the button it says : COULD NOT FIND NETWORK CONFIGURATION TOOL.
what now? |
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02-11-2009, 04:35 PM
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think you need to install networkmanager
apt-get install network-manager-gnome
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02-11-2009, 04:36 PM
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think you need to install networkmanager
apt-get install network-manager-gnome
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It seems to be installed already. |
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02-11-2009, 04:39 PM
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02-11-2009, 04:53 PM
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Again it says: could not finde network configuration tool. |
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02-11-2009, 05:08 PM
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new output
New Iwconfig output:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
pan0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID  ff/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
Power Management ff
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 |
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02-11-2009, 05:16 PM
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now use nm or wicd to make the connection
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02-11-2009, 05:28 PM
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now use nm or wicd to make the connection
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what is Wicd??
I can't make a wireless connection with Network mananger |
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02-11-2009, 05:30 PM
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do you see any wireless networks?
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