Can't get wireless to work with kubuntu 9.04

[Bruce Bales]

On Friday 31 July 2009 12:07:36 Thomas Olsen wrote:
> On Friday 31 July 2009 05:52:31 Bruce Bales wrote:
> > Greetings -
> >
> > Wireless on my laptop with kubuntu 8.04 was not easy.  I had to
> > sudo iwconfig ath0 essid bbs key (the wep code)  and then
> > sudo dhclient each time I booted up.
> >
> > Then I upgraded to kubuntu 9.04 and the iwconfig line no longer works. 
> > The iwconfig line gives me "ath0 no such device."
> > I tried wlan0, wlan, eth0, ath1 and wlan1 -- same result.
> >
> > Wireless was working long enough to install and update 9.04.
> >
> > The main page has an icon which says "network management"  Clicking on
> > that then  "network connection" then "enable wireless"  then "manage
> > connection" gets me nowhere.
> >
> > I would greatly appreciate some help on this.
> >
> > bruce
>
> Have you tried just "iwconfig" at the cli to see if any wireless interfaces
> are recognized?
>
> --
> Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen
>
>   Thomas Olsen

  I don't understand it, but here is the output of iwconfig.

bruce at laptop:~/docs$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"linksys"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=20 dBm
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

pan0      no wireless extensions.

bruce