Wireless in ubuntu

[radiohead]

I have recently fixed my wireless router and now have aquired a wireless adapter. The router is NetGear, though that is irrevelant. The adapter is a Motorola 802.11g Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter. It runs fine on Windows XP, and I have even picked up a couple other wireless networks in my neighborhood with it. But, on my Ubuntu HD, I have no internet. I did have to install drivers for it on my Windows HD, but I have always thought that Linux would automatically config it. Does anyone have a solution to this? Ubuntu recognizes the adapter and everything, but the link LED on the adapter only comes on when I am running Windows.

 

Any ideas?

 

And in response to the post on the home page, I do not care if side conversations are started.

[1veedo]

Well I do know that there is a program specifically for "lighting the LED" and a labtop I saw w/ Linux on did not have the support...it was just a guide to installing ubuntu on a labtop.

 

Go to http://ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories and get the extra repositories. There is a bunch of internet applications and I notice many wireless ones. You'd find them very useful although it might take a while to brows all the apps.

but I have always thought that Linux would automatically config it.

Sometiems it will, sometimes it wont. I would try searchign for Linux drivers for it. Linux sometiems uses modules instead of drivers so you can search for modules as well. But some need "something," in most casses. I would think wireless would normally work because it's the hardware that's talking to everything else. I've never used wireless w/ any Linux before, though.

[Dave]

Your first step is to get the model number see whether the card is actually supported under Linux - some wireless cards aren't. After this, you're going to need to get the drivers (if you need them) and then rebuild the kernel with the new drivers. Some cards are supported under open-source drivers, however, and might already be in the kernel.

 

There's usually a guide on how to install these things under your distro of choice; have a look on the ubuntu forums, there's probably going to be something there.

[Klaynos]

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HardwareSupportComponentsWirelessNetworkCards

 

Have a look there have a look for the card and the arcitecture which it is.

 

If it isn't there you mayneed to either download a new madwifi driver if one exists for it, or us ndiswrapper and use a windows driver.

 

If it is listed and doesn't work open up a terminally and type:

 

iwconfig ADAPTERNAME channel WIFICHANELLUSED

 

Replacing adaptername and wifichanellused with the channel used, then type:

 

ifconfig ADAPERNAME up

 

and

 

iwlist ADAPTERNAME scan

 

It should give you a list of all the wifi networks that are inrangeI recently set up wifi on my ubuntu desktop (a dlink dwl-g520) with a atheros chipset. after working out it was the wrong channel it worked fine. If it picks up the adapter then my guess is it isn't configured properly and the channel is the most likely culpret.

 

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