No wireless in Ubuntu :(

[David Fox]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Christopher Lemire
<christopher.lemire at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have a strange issue. I can connect to wireless networks from Linux
> (Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit using rtl8187 chipset), but I can't see outside of

The version is different (I do wireless exclusively on my laptop, and
that runs Karmic -- Actually now both my systems are running Karmic.)

The only reason I responded to this is that I've had some wireless
connectivity issues with Karmic.

The problem essentially is that KDE's network manager at times won't
even see the network -it just fails to detect any sites that are known
to be available. I don't have wireless exactly in my apartment, and I
use other means to get wireless. 99% of the internet I do can be done
from my desktop which has a direct plug in connection to the wall, and
I don't do routing or gateways or go through cable modems or others
because I don't have to.

I only mention it because it's somewhat relevant and it may be a heads
up to people who are running the beta. Sometimes it turns out the cure
is to temporarily switch to gnome, since gnome's network management
tool is a bit better, and I've noticed the changes and on this
specific issue Karmic has been improving, but it needs a bit more
investigation.

I haven't yet noticed a problem with this specifically with the Jaunty
release though.

My laptop is a Fujitsu A series lifebook. lspci says I have an Atheros
AR928X adapter but I doubt any hardware issues.







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