[Ubuntu Chicago] ubuntu wireless

[Wally Valters]

If you don't have working wireless Starbucks wont help much :))

Getting hardware to work is the stumbling block of most things in OS's...
Was no one able to help out at ubuntuforums?

In a terminal type 'dmesg' and paste the output here s owe can see what your
kernel is doing with the card.

You are still no worse off, you still cant connect.  Windows Linux, no
matter.  No Driver = No hardware.  So we need to determine what driver your
card should be using, and then get it installed.  After that its pretty
easy.

That is why I keep mentioning ubuntuforums.org.  you can search that for
your card type and get tons of results to see what others are doing.  You
could also search on your laptop model and see if anything pops up.



On 8/21/07, jason jenkins <jenkins27 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK, I am having big problems.  I tried the manual method once again and
> got an error at step:
>
> wget http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/TARFILE=rt2500-cvs-daily.tar.gz
>
> I had successfully done the automatic method but it did not work.  After
> removing the network manager I had no ability to see wireless networks.  I
> reinstalled network manager but it just showed the wired connection now.  I
> opened the wireless assistant and it said it had to close because there were
> no usable wireless devices found.  It looks like I am much worse off at this
> point.  I have no idea what to do and need help.  I am close to giving up on
> linux once again because this gets too frustrating.
> Is there anyone relatively close to Wisconsin who could help me out?  I
> will drive down to what ever city and we could meet at a starbucks or
> something.  I am willing to pay someone or at least buy them lunch.  I just
> want to get this stupid wireless card to work for once.
> Thanks.
>
> On 8/15/07, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> >
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> > jason jenkins wrote:
> > > I am not sure I understand what that means.
> >
> > The command you should run isn't:
> >
> >   sudo apt-get build-essential
> >
> > it is
> >
> >   sudo apt-get install build-essential
> >
> >   ^^^^ - run the next statement as superuser
> >        ^^^^^^ - the program to run (apt-get)
> >                ^^^^^^^ - tell apt-get you want to install the following
> >                          packages (you can also update and upgrade
> >                          all packages with apt-get, not just install
> >                          them)
> >                        ^^^^^^.... a list of packages to install
> >
> > John
> > =:->
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > on a side note I decided to go ahead with the automatic script and
> > that
> > > seemed to work (it did installing stuff for a while then cam back to
> > the
> > > prompt).  But I don't have any wireless, under connections it just has
> > wired
> > > and modem where there used to be a wireless as well.  i assume this is
> > > because I no longer have network manager.  So I tried installing the
> > wicd
> > > program and that didn't really work either because it still says there
> > is no
> > > wireless found.  So it looks like I screwed stuff up pretty well.
> > >
> > > On 8/15/07, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> > > jason jenkins wrote:
> > >>>> ok, I am getting errors up the ying yang.
> > >>>> on the 2nd part of the first step this is what happned:
> > >>>> sudo apt-get build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
> > >>>> E: Invalid operation build-essential
> > >>>>
> > > sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
> > >              ^^^^^^^
> > >
> > > John
> > > =:->
> > >
> > >>
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