Hi folks, I'm somewhat new to Linux - my last distro was mandriva back in 2005.
So here I am. I have an HP/Compaq 6715b and I can't seem to figure out how to set up the wireless. I have the wireless LED lit up - per my research thats somewhat of an issue. If it isn't turned on when the system boots it won't work.
Code:
$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:30:00.0
version: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:18 memory:c8000000-c8003fff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:1a:73:d8:b1:21
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
So that's the info. I'm just not sure where to go to enter the settings.
I followed the steps from
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-tro...in-ubuntu.html
for the encrypted part - since I have WPA2 personal set up.
Code:
$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
justin@Ubuntu-lappy:~$
justin@Ubuntu-lappy:~$ sudo dhclient -r
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/pan0/46:6d:6e:d8:61:c8
Sending on LPF/pan0/46:6d:6e:d8:61:c8
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1a:73:d8:b1:21
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:1a:73:d8:b1:21
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:1f:29:a8:f1:76
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:1f:29:a8:f1:76
Sending on Socket/fallback
justin@Ubuntu-lappy:~$
justin@Ubuntu-lappy:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
thats where I get stuck.