Turn on WiFi

[Shannon McMackin]

Karl F. Larsen 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
> 
> 
Karl,

lspci will show your wireless chipset regardless of it's state.  More 
than likely, the lack of backports is your problem unless you're certain 
you have it installed for your kernel.

If you have the newer atheros chipset, you may have to blacklist the 
ath5k driver and switch to a manual install of madwifi.