OK, didnt seem to work. I did gksudo gedit <span>/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and deleted the blacklist rt2500 line and rebooted and there was no difference. the I did </span>4) in a terminal type "sudo depmod -a" & 5) in a terminal type "sudo modprobe rt2500" and lastly 6) in a terminal : echo 'rt2500' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules. There was no change.
<br><br>Once the wireless is working I am sure much of the newbness will go away very quickly. If I have working wireless with WPA then I can make ubuntu my daily OS and once I can do that I will really learn stuff quickly.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wally Valters</b> <<a href="mailto:deepsky99@gmail.com">deepsky99@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
hehe... <br>if you want graphical (like notepad only better) you can use gedit. since you are using reg ubuntu, and gnome the command would be :<br><br>gksudo gedit <span>/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist etc... the gksudo is just a graphical prompt for your password like sudo is in the terminal.
<br><br>After we get wireless working we can try and eliminate some of your "nubeness", although we are not miracle workers.<br><br></span><div><span class="e" id="q_1149d47ce8344f24_1"><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 8/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
jason jenkins</b> <<a href="mailto:jenkins27@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jenkins27@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span>"( or instead of vim pick your favorite editor)
"<br></span>ROFL<br>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 :)
<br>I will stick with vim and give it a shot later after work and let you know how it goes.<br>Let me know if you find the guy who wrote the script and need help hanging him.<div><span>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/24/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Wally Valters</b> <<a href="mailto:deepsky99@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">deepsky99@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Someone ought to hang the dude who wrote this script...<br>basically he blacklists his own driver...<br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br></span>ok jason try this...<br><br>1) sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. ( or instead of vim pick your favorite editor)
<br>2) remove any line that says: blacklist rt2500<br>3) save, reboot, see what happens<br><br>you still may be without wifi, since your driver is probably not loaded., as he never does a permanent change to the loaded modules
<br><br>4) in a terminal type "sudo depmod -a"<br>5) in a terminal type "sudo modprobe rt2500"<br><br>that SHOULD load up the driver (if his script actually did the rest of its duties)<br>if it does, make it permanent:
<br><br>6) in a terminal : echo 'rt2500' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules<br>=============================================<br>If it works, you will have wireless, but you may not be able to connect to a protected network, but thats the easy part.
<div><span><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wally Valters</b> <<a href="mailto:deepsky99@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
deepsky99@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I cant until Tuesday. If no one else can before then we should be able to meet up somewhere. <br><br>Brat stop would be ideal, you can feed me beer:) But I don't think they have wireless.<br><br>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.
<br><br>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.<br><br>it was in here (<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=525833" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=525833</a>) correct?<div><span><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">jason jenkins</b> <<a href="mailto:jenkins27@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
jenkins27@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">can anyone looks at it for me?<div><span>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wally Valters</b> <<a href="mailto:deepsky99@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">deepsky99@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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.<br><br>Either wipe / re-install ubuntu, or get someone to look at the machine.
<div><span><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">jason jenkins</b> <<a href="mailto:jenkins27@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
jenkins27@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span>there is no light. the manual process error'd out.<br><br><br></span><div><span><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wally Valters
</b> <<a href="mailto:deepsky99@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">deepsky99@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Does it have a light? When you boot ubuntu does the light come on?<br><br>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.
<div><span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">jason jenkins</b> <<a href="mailto:jenkins27@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
jenkins27@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
yes. it works fine in windows.<br>Its fubar'd isn't it?<div><span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wally Valters</b> <<a href="mailto:deepsky99@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
deepsky99@gmail.com</a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Is your wireless card turned on?<div><span>
<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">jason jenkins</b> <<a href="mailto:jenkins27@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jenkins27@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Here is the dmesg file.<div><span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wally Valters</b> <<a href="mailto:deepsky99@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
deepsky99@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
They will need some way to login, and some credentials to log in with...<br><br>What about that dmesg output?<br><br><br><div><span><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">jason jenkins
</b> <<a href="mailto:jenkins27@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
jenkins27@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></span><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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?<div><span><br><br></span></div></blockquote></span></div><br>
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