wireless card not working

[Don W. Jenkins]

Sean, 

I'll reply to you and to the others I already replied to earlier.  As
always with wireless, I messed around with the things you suggested,
and some of the things the bug mentioned, apparently having no success.
Then I booted over to Windows to send an e-mail and read one more thing
you said to try, so when I re-booted Ubuntu, the card is now working,
and I'm sending this in Ubuntu.  If it keeps working, I'm in pretty
good shape.  I never know what makes these things start.  That's what
happened when I set up my home wireless network.  I messed around a
while, and then things worked.  My son told me to do stuff that didn't
seem to be helping, but then everything connected.  Now I have two
desktops and two laptops hooked together with the highspeed cable, and
one of the desktop machines is a print server.  

Anyway, thanks.

Don J.
--- Sean O'Donnell <sean at odonnell.nu> wrote:

> Hi Don,
> 
> I have a similar atheros a/b/g card and I found that it wont work in
> g mode
> with the modules in ubuntu, I switched it to b with iwconfig ath0
> mode 2
> (mode 3 is g)  and then it connected just fine. I also had to issue
> and ifdown ath0
> followed by ifup ath0 after switching modes to get the switch to kick
> in.
> 
> Also try giving the card a static IP address and see if it comes up
> but cant connect to anything else on the network.Can the network
> configuration
> tool (Computer -> System Configuration - > Networking) see the card?
> 
> best of luck and feel free to mail me if that doesnt do it.
> 
> Sean
> 
> > I'm a new poster and new to Ubuntu, but I am impressed with what I
> have
> > seen and by their philosophy. I am trying to migrate from SuSE 9.1
> Pro
> > because, while it handles my wireless card flawlessly, it cannot
> seem
> > to deal with my display at some level and keeps freezing everything
> up.
> >  So I'm trying to find the really good match of display that
> doesn't
> > freeze, wireless card that works, and Debian (don't really like
> those
> > RPM's.)  What I have is a Proxim Orinoco PCI a,b,g card, and I find
> > that Ubuntu is loading all the same modules, including the non-free
> > firmware ones that SuSE did, and when I run the device driver and
> the
> > network config tool, it seems to see the card, but it doesn't seem
> to
> > be able to enable the card so that it is connected. It is shown as
> ath0
> > because it is an Atheros chip, ratherthan eth0.  The card works
> fine in
> > Win 2000 and SuSE, so no problem with the hardware.  And Ubuntu
> seems
> > to have all the parts to connect, but I'm not sure what the
> handshake
> > is.  Any insight would help this new user.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Don J.
> >
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Don W. Jenkins
Rancho San Diego      |     A state of not minding too much |   
"People will let you do whatever you will"
                                      --Max Farce


		
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