Turn on WiFi

[Raquel]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:47:30 -0600
"Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Raquel wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:58:26 -0600
> > "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Raquel wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:36:47 -0600
> >>> "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>>>     Somehow I had the hardware left on because my 8.10 was able
> >>>> to get WiFi. But today I set up Jaunty and it found the WiFi
> >>>> for about 30 minutes and then it quit. I went back to 8.10 and
> >>>> now it can't find WiFi either.
> >>>>
> >>>>         
> >>> I found out that all the pretty lights which work with Vista may
> >>> not work with Linux.  I recently bought a new HP G70-246US.  I
> >>> removed Vista and installed Ubuntu 8.10.  I had a whale of a
> >>> time getting the wireless to work until I got rid of
> >>> Network-Manager and installed WICD.  Now it works wonderfully!
> >>>
> >>> Go to http://wicd.net/download.php and follow the instructions.
> >>> It will remove Network-Manager for you as it installs.
> >>>
> >>> I understand that WICD will come with Ubuntu 9.04.
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>     First WIDC does not come with 9.04 but it is easy to get
> >> with apt-get wicd which I did on Jaunty. It did delete the
> >> network manager software almost in total. I went to the web page
> >> and did everything indicated and WDIC tried to work but it was
> >> not able to turn on the laptop WiFi hardware and it does not
> >> work.
> >>
> >>
> >> Karl
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > What is the network card?  Results of #ifconfig, #iwconfig,
> > #iwlist scan?
> >
> > Like I said, I'm not an expert so, I don't know.  Sorry.
> >
> >   
> lspci says the Ethernet Controller Realtek Semiconductor Co. 
> RTL8101E/RTL8102E
> 
> 
>     iwconf says no wireless period.
> 
> iwlist scan says nothing supports scanning.
> 
>     As I have said, the WiFi hardware is not turned on.
> 
> 
> Karl
> 

I had that trouble for awhile, until I realized that 2 conflicting
modules were loaded for my adapter.  Another thing that happened at
first was that the kernel was updated, breaking wifi network
connections.  I had to drop back to an earlier kernel.

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Raquel
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