wifi [Solved]

[Brad De Vries]

On 10/19/05, Pupeno <pupeno at pupeno.com> wrote:
> Just in case someone missed it, and for the record, I fixed this problem by
> downloading, compiling and installing the drivers from http://madwifi.sf.net
> (which are distributed on the package linux-restricted-modules, but doesn't
> work with my card).
> Thanks.
>
> On Tuesday 18 October 2005 20:10, Pupeno wrote:
> > Does wifi work at all on ubuntu/kubutu ? I've tried many different
> > configurations without any success (it was working all-right on Gentoo).
> > When I run /etc/init.d/network restart it just hangs for a long long time
> > untill it say ok, but ath0 never gets an ip.
> > Currently, my interfaces look like this:
> > iface ath0 inet dhcp
> >         wireless-essid Default
> > auto ath0
> >
> > (among other things of course)
> > Am I missing anything ?
> >
> > Using ubuntu, I managed to get non-wap wifi working in an eye-blink with
> > its graphical tool, I trugled a lot to get it to work with wep and I never
> > got it stable. With kubuntu the graphical interface is totally useless and
> > I can't even get it to connect by hand.
> >
> > My access point is currently configured like this:
> > (o) Enabled ( ) Disabled
> > SSID: Default
> > Channel: 6 [x] Auto select
> > Mode Setting: ( ) G Mode  (o) Mix Mode
> > SSID Broadcast: (o) Enabled  ( ) Disabled
> > Security: (o) None ( ) WEP ( ) WPA-PSK ( ) WPA
> >
> > Any ideas are welcome, I intend to enable WEP latter.
> > Thank you.
> > --
> > Pupeno

Thanks, I'll try that straight away -- or at least as soon as possible.