Wireless does not see Internet [was: PSK recovery?]

[Fred Roller]

James Takac wrote:
> [snip]
> Hi Fred
>
> Alas that didn't work. It's a pitty I can't test the wireless off the live cd 
> else I'd have tried that too. It still gets the dchp and I just installed 
> hard-info on that system hoping to see what the wireless chip is thinking 
> maybe a driver issue? didn't see the chip info but I see it's sent and 
> receiving info over time. And interestingly vista and ubuntu have shared that 
> laptop for over a year without any wireless before this. The other thing I 
> think might be a partially corrupted system so am considering (but don't want 
> to if I can avoid it) is a complete reinstall. Still looking to the router 
> wont hurt ;) Maybe it's there
>
> James
>
>   
I feel your pain.  When first learning Linux I crashed my system several 
times.  Kid with a new toy ;-)  I poked and proded every nook and 
crany.  As a result I learned a partition layout and a few tweeks that 
took the pain out of rebuilding.  How ever, in your case, if you do go 
down that road, you could maybe move your important stuff to some of the 
windows machines.  As I recall you have internal network connectivity.  
If the Vista machines have the space save your /home directory.  See if 
you can establish a shared folder.

 Also take a look at "The perfect build" on how to forge:

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-ubuntu-9.04

This helps me cut down on looking for packages to get a lot things 
working.  You don't need everything, but it makes for a nice checklist.

Hopefully someone else might have some insight.  Wish I could have been 
more helpful.


-- 
Fred
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"Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing something wrong."