The card is a nova tech NV-922W which uses a ralink 2500 chipset.  I did the lspci thing and it said it was a ralink 2500 minipci 802.11 g. I am at work now but I will remove wpasupplicant when I get home and post my results.  After I remove the wpasupplicant am I supposed to try to connect again and do you need me to do the less /etc/network/interfaces thing again? <div>On 8/14/07, Wally Valters <<a href="mailto:deepsky99@gmail.com">deepsky99@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Excellent effort on that  Thats the kind of stuff we love to see, self troubleshooting :))  Ok so this really is a driver problem (at least it is how mine manifested itself). We need to get it to where you can connect unencrypted, then we play with WPA etc. First : sudo apt-get remove wpasupplicant sudo apt-get autoremove this will get us back ot the start. Now this whole thread started with Richard stating you had a ralink card.  How do you know that, do you know the exact model? We are going ot do the start of this Wiki first: (<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported </a>) open up a terminal and enter the following: <pre>lspci -v | less If you have not used less, you can use [PgUp] {PgDn] or arrow keys to scroll document Scroll through that and find your wireless info and paste it in here it will look something like this (this is actually a wired one, but my box at work does not have a wireless card in it ) 01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Optiplex GX260 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18 Memory at ff8c0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] I/O ports at ec40 [size=64] Capabilities: <access denied> </pre><div><div>On 8/13/07, jason jenkins <<a href="mailto:jenkins27@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> jenkins27@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I just did it on my home network with no encryption.  It said I was connected and it showed my signal strength.  When I clicked on properties of the connection though it had all 0's where the Ip address and subnet mas and all that stuff was supposed to be filled out.  The only thing that was not 0's was the mac address.  So it looks like I am connecting but not actually getting assigned an IP address on the network.  I was unable to browse the internet and I was not even able to connect to the router via <a href="http://192.168.1.1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">192.168.1.1</a>.  In windows sometimes you can have issues where you can connect to your network but not browse the net but you can always access the router, so I am a loss as to what is going on. Is there a way that I can do a screen capture in ubuntu so I can send out screen shots of stuff to you guys? Also, is knetworkmanager any different in functionality to the network manager in ubuntu?  If I get KDE installed will that magically fix the issues I am having? <div> <div>On 8/13/07, Wally Valters <<a href="mailto:deepsky99@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> deepsky99@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> This is your wireless card: <pre>auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp</pre> This means you use DHCP, and you should have been ok.  I suspect it was as Randy stated and you didnt accept the terms or do whatever the hotel wanted you to do.  You stated it was unencrypted so there wasnt any WPA issues. <div> <div>On 8/13/07, jason jenkins <<a href="mailto:jenkins27@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> jenkins27@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> ok, here is the file.  I did not see anything about my wireless card here though.<div> <div>On 8/13/07, Wally Valters <<a href="mailto:deepsky99@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">deepsky99@gmail.com </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">to get the file contents: in a terminal type less /etc/network/interfaces "/' is the root of the filesystem, everything is under that. In Linux there are no drive roots (they are called mount points) so to speak, just the filesystem root.  so /home/fred is the fred subdirectory under the home directory, under the / directory (you had that part right.) You should pick up a newbie linux book, or search the web.  There is a lot of info about linux out there, and some of it, although straightforward once you know it, can be difficult to grasp at first.  And I cant stress using UbuntuForums.org enough.  Excellent searching , and most questions are either answered there already, or will be very quickly. As far as wpasupplicant,  it is a program, not the driver.  If you can connect at home, then the driver is most likely fine. (ndiswrapper or whatever you are using).  I have not used wpasupplicant, so I cant help much there (I use knetworkmanager). <div> <div>On 8/13/07, jason jenkins <<a href="mailto:jenkins27@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> jenkins27@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> At home I use DHCP.  I am a linux newb and am not sure where I would find my /etc/network/interfaces file.  I assume "/" is root and the equivalent to the C drive. and etc is a subfolder and network is a subfolder of that and so on.  what is the Ubuntu equivalent of mycomputer where I would find the "/" folder? Is this link the type of stuff I should be trying? <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/internet/C/connect-to-internet.html#wireless" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/internet/C/connect-to-internet.html#wireless </a> I think I would need some step by step help with the ndiswrapper.  I have the driver CD for my card.  It sounds like I would need to use that to get WPA working.  I think I read somewhere that the wpasupplicant didn't work with my card or something so maybe the ndiswrapper will? <div> <div>On 8/13/07, Wally Valters <<a href="mailto:deepsky99@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> deepsky99@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 1) Always reply to the list :)) Juts because you connect does not mean you got an IP address.  If you are not set up to use DHCP would be one reason, and their are others.  Thats why I asked how you are set up at home, static or DHCP. attach your /etc/network/interfaces file and we can go from there.<div> <div>On 8/13/07, jason jenkins <<a href="mailto:jenkins27@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> jenkins27@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi, sorry about that; you are correct, I was unable to browse web pages.  Firefox just gave me the not connected page.  The little computer icon in the top right turned blue and said I was connected to the network.  The hotel was not using IPv6 but it seemed like my laptop was trying to use it instead of IPv4.  I cannot remember exactly where I saw the information.  I think I clicked on properties of the wireless connection or something and it had all the different connections including the loop back and had info for each one.  Under ra0 (my wireless connection) it said IPv6.  I am not sure if I got an IP address assigned or not but assume I did if I was connected to the network.  It also displayed signal strength for the first time ever as well. <div> <div>On 8/13/07, Wally Valters <<a href="mailto:deepsky99@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> deepsky99@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Im not sure what you mean by "I was unable to get the internet to work" I assume you were unable to browse web pages but we need to know more details.  What indications of a connection did you have?  Did you get an IP Address assigned? I doubt that a Hotel is using IPv6 over their complimentary wireless so that is probably not the issue. Is your laptop using a static IP address at home or is it set for DHCP? <div><div>On 8/12/07, jason jenkins <<a href="mailto:jenkins27@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> jenkins27@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div> I was on vacation over the week and brought my lap top.  I connected to an un-encrypted wireless network at a hotel and was able to make the connection.  Unfortunately I was unable to get the internet to work.  Any idea what the issue would be?  I was looking at some settings and noticed that IPv6 was mentioned and can kind of remember that being a possible issue.  Any thoughts? <div>On 8/3/07, Richard A. Johnson <<a href="mailto:nixternal@ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> nixternal@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Does anyone have some wifi experience with ralink cards? If someone could help Jason out or point him in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated. Jason, if you don't hear back shortly from this list, you could also check out <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> as well as <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://ubuntuforums.org</a>. There are plenty of people chomping at the bit to help you there. Sorry I couldn't be of much help, but we are pushing close to deadlines and I am a little swamped right now. Thanks everyone! #### FORWARDED EMAIL STARTS HERE #### Hi, I am hoping you can help me out.  I found your email from the ubuntu local team list.  I am from Milwaukee so you are the closest to me.  I just installed feisty on my laptop and can't get my wireless working.  I know windows very well but don't know jack about linux but want to learn.  I just need to get this 1 step done and then I can actually use ubuntu and learn the rest on my own.  I looked online but can't find info that pertains to my specific situation although there are most likely tons of answers to my question out there.  I just don't understand it well enough to know if it is the answer to my problem.  I would really like some step by step help either over the phone or via email to just get connected to my wireless router and get on the internet so I can check the forums and howto's while I am on ubuntu.  I installed ubuntu and got all the updates and automatix and stuff.  I basically followed a howto from howtoforge.  So its all up to date, I also  did the sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant thing too but not sure if it worked or not.  My network has WPA encryption.  I have a ralink card i think and it looks like it is working or at least recognized by ubuntu.  I can see the networks that are in range but I cannot connect.  I do not have the option to use WPA, just WEP.  I chenged my network to WEP and I still could not connect.  If you have time or know someone who does I would REALLY appreciate the help just geting this started.  No wireless has been the 1 thing that has stopped me from using linux. If you have time t do this over the phone it might be easiest, just let me know when a good time to call would be and we could set something up. Otherwise hopefully over email will work as well. Thanks in advance. #### FORWARDED EMAIL ENDS HERE #### -- Richard A. 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