Warning - Linux Idiot on the lose

Darkstar_Surfer · 10-25-2009, 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jomen

ps:
you talk about a 100 m cable
If you are that far away from the wireless AP there could be problems with reception.
Also, from what I gathered, the device will only do the slower b-mode (802.11b) and will probably not support WPA encryption.
...only to prevent surprises...

Its a long way to walk but the bedroom is actually directly above the router. 802.11b gives me 22Mb which is a lot faster than my ADSL connection so still no problems. I was using the PC with XP so I know how well it performs, unfortunately XP hangs regularly so I though I would give Linux a go before binning the old girl. Strange with all my prodding and tweaking it has never crashed once under Linux.

jomen · 10-25-2009, 05:30 PM

o.k. then
the more important part (in terms of getting closer to getting it to work) is still unanswered:

Code:

uname -r

which will tell the kernel-version you run
And also:
Which Ubuntu is it? The newest (karmic) I hope.
or jaunty...or which?

Based on that info you (or we) can find and download the needed packages from here:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/
and install them via apt-get on commandline

onebuck · 10-25-2009, 06:53 PM

Hi,

'100m' is not the best length for wireless but can be doable. A lot depends on construction techniques and composition of the walls.

jomen · 10-26-2009, 07:08 AM

I now do have the newest Ubuntu installed in virtualbox - and have to bring to attention, that the module as well as the needed firmware for that card is already present - with no online-connection so far. Just the plain CD install.

Code:

lsmod | grep acx

should tell you that the module is loaded
if it is not, then

Code:

modprobe acx

will do that
- all commands with "sudo" in front when needed -
after you plug in the adapter, you should see something in the system logs.
To check, use one of these commands:

Code:

dmesg
cat /var/log/syslog

The documentation is old and it mentioned that network-manager needs to be disabled.
No relatively recent info on that that I could find.
So I suppose it is "just working"(TM) now.

What do you get from all these commands?
What happens if you right-click the network-manager icon?

And please tell what version of Ubuntu you are on.

From what I can see, it should just work - given that the network settings are correct (you need to fill them in - it will not ask you automatically as in windows).

Darkstar_Surfer · 10-27-2009, 02:50 AM

Thanks for all the advice but unfortunately I am away from home this week, half term, and will get back on Sunday so will have a look then.

Many thanks to all and from memory I have version 9.04.

jomen · 10-27-2009, 07:09 AM

Quote:

...and from memory I have version 9.04.

Then it is exactly the same I have referred to in the previous post, which means:
everything you need is already there - it should just work.