[Ubuntu Chicago] ubuntu wireless

[jason jenkins]

"( or instead of vim pick your favorite editor) "
ROFL
Perhaps you still underestimate my level of newbness with linux.  I have
never heard of vim or any other editor that I may have installed in ubuntu.
Thanks assuming that I have some clue tho, that makes me feel better :)
I will stick with vim and give it a shot later after work and let you know
how it goes.
Let me know if you find the guy who wrote the script and need help hanging
him.

On 8/24/07, Wally Valters <deepsky99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Someone ought to hang the dude who wrote this script...
> basically he blacklists his own driver...
>
> ok jason try this...
>
> 1) sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. ( or instead of vim pick your
> favorite editor)
> 2) remove any line that says:   blacklist rt2500
> 3) save, reboot, see what happens
>
> you still may be without wifi, since your driver is probably not loaded.,
> as he never does a permanent change to the loaded modules
>
> 4) in a terminal type "sudo depmod -a"
> 5) in a terminal type "sudo modprobe rt2500"
>
> that SHOULD load up the driver (if his script actually did the rest of its
> duties)
> if it does, make it permanent:
>
> 6) in a terminal : echo 'rt2500' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
> =============================================
> If it works, you will have wireless, but you may not be able to connect to
> a protected network, but thats the easy part.
>
>
> On 8/24/07, Wally Valters <deepsky99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I cant until Tuesday.  If no one else can before then we should be able
> > to meet up somewhere.
> >
> > Brat stop would be ideal, you can feed me beer:)  But I don't think they
> > have wireless.
> >
> > If you want to try remote connection, install ssh (probably is already)
> > and let me know and we can set that up over the phone this weekend
> > sometime.  Im not sure how much we can accomplish that way, but it may be
> > worth a shot.
> >
> > btw what link did you get that auto script at that borked everything
> > up?  Ill try and see if there is anything really wierd in there.
> >
> > it was in here ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=525833)
> > correct?
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/24/07, jason jenkins < jenkins27 at gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > can anyone looks at it for me?
> > >
> > > On 8/24/07, Wally Valters <deepsky99 at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > When the manual process hit errors, you probably should have stopped
> > > > there.  So unless you can identify what that script did, and reverse any
> > > > negative affects, there isn't much I can do for you.
> > > >
> > > > Either wipe / re-install ubuntu, or get someone to look at the
> > > > machine.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 8/24/07, jason jenkins < jenkins27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > there is no light.  the manual process error'd out.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 8/24/07, Wally Valters <deepsky99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Does it have a light?  When you boot ubuntu does the light come
> > > > > > on?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > You are going to have to find out what that script you ran
> > > > > > actually did.  That is the one reason I suggested manually doing the stuff,
> > > > > > because you then have an exact backout procedure.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 8/23/07, jason jenkins < jenkins27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > yes.  it works fine in windows.
> > > > > > > Its fubar'd isn't it?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On 8/23/07, Wally Valters < deepsky99 at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Is your wireless card turned on?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On 8/23/07, jason jenkins <jenkins27 at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Here is the dmesg file.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > On 8/23/07, Wally Valters < deepsky99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > They will need some way to login, and some credentials
> > > > > > > > > > to log in with...
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > What about that dmesg output?
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > On 8/22/07, jason jenkins < jenkins27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > I have no idea how to do any of that.  I was going to
> > > > > > > > > > > plug it right in to the modem so its not behind a firewall.  Shouldn't that
> > > > > > > > > > > be easy enough to hack like that?
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