[solved maybe] Re: wireless giving trouble in Ubuntu recently

[H.S.]

C Hamel wrote:
> On Thursday 19 October 2006 10:54, H.S. wrote:
> 
>>C Hamel wrote:
>>
>>>Thank you for the detailed information.  To my knowledge, I do not use
>>>the gnome keyring.  I use KDE.  Since I do not have WEP I wonder if that
>>>makes any difference, anyhow.
>>
>>I think KDE has a keyring manager also, something called KDE Walet. But
>>if the wireless network doesn't have a wep key, just selecting a network
>>from the nm-applet should work.
>>
>>->HS
> 
> Oh!  That brings me to the nm-applet.  You must mean the WiFi Manager, I 
> guess.  That has always showed that the card is operational but there are no 
> networks --even when I am sitting right on top of one.  Did I read you right, 
> that you were experiencing the same thing?
> 

I am not using WiFi manager.  But a quick apt-cache search shows that 
there is kwifimanager for KDE.

I was using nm-applet in Gnome with network-manager-gnome package. I 
think you can try with network-manager-kde package -- which perhaps will 
give you the kwifimanager though I cannot be sure.

However, I was always getting the wireless network on my network manager 
but was just not able to connect to them, unlike your case where you are 
not getting anything at all. Perhaps it is a module problem in your 
case. If you are using bcm based card, what does
$> lsmod | grep bcm

give?

I think you should start clean. Make sure your /etc/network/interfaces 
has only the lines with 'lo' in them (good idea to copy the file 
somewhere and then edit it). Then reboot (I think you can make do with 
restarting the networking, but reboot 'cleans' everything). Then see 
what is the output of
$> ifconfig

and then try your wifi manager to see if it scans the nearby networks.

Oh, btw, make sure your wireless card's antenna is not turned off.

->HS