WiFi not working after clean install on Sony Vaio

EmileeMakel · 06-22-2011, 12:21 PM

I just did a clean install of the newest version of Ubuntu (11.4?) on my Sony Vaio CW. I was able to use the WiFi at my friends house where I installed it. At home when I entered the pass for the internet it would try connecting and five minutes later be back asking for the pass again. It won't connect at my house or my grandparent's house. They both have a protected internet but my friend does also and I was able to connect to his. Any suggestions?

Snark1994 · 06-22-2011, 03:11 PM

Perhaps you could try connecting manually. Do you use WEP encryption or WPA/WPA2? Also, do you use DHCP or static addresses? Also, one possibility would be to temporarily disable encryption and see if you can connect to it. If you couldn't then you would know the problem wasn't with the encryption

EmileeMakel · 06-23-2011, 12:58 PM

Well I installed linux-backports-modules-net-natty-generic and Additional Drivers (Jockey-gtkk). It will now work at my Grandparent's house but not at my own.

Snark1994 · 06-24-2011, 10:51 AM

You didn't really address any of questions I asked in my post... So I can't really help you any further, except perhaps suggesting the use of Wireshark to see what is being sent/received on the network.