wireless connectivity

[Traveller]

On 14/09/2010 6:23, Avraham Hanadari wrote:
> On 27 August 2010 14:10 PM, Tony Pursell wrote:
>> Hi Avraham
>>
>> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 08:08 +0300, Avraham Hanadari wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Just installed 10.4 in a desktop machine; just Ubuntu, no dual boot.
>>> Seems to be fine, BUT I have no wireless connection. My previous
>>> experience with Ubuntu has always been with dual boots and perhaps the
>>> installation took a peek at the Windows connection,
>>
>> No way!
>>
>>> because it seems to
>>> me the wireless connection was right there at the beginning. This time
>>> there is not even the classic selection of various wireless servers in
>>> the neighborhood. I am presented with a frankly bewildering array of
>>> lettered choices and am quite completely lost.
>>>
>>
>> Do you have a network icon in your top right panel?  Is it the fan
>> shaped icon for Wireless, or the two up and down arrows for Wired?
>>
>> Is Wireless built in to your PC, or are you using a USB dongle? Can you
>> give us some details.
>>
>> Give us some examples of the lettered choices you are seeing.
>>
>> Tony
>>
> I connected the system by cable to the the router and Internet was
> immediately available. I just now disconnected the cable and plugged in
> the USB dongle antenna DRUC-U2, 802-11g USB 2.0 adapter and I'm back
> with the "no internet connection" announcement. Evidently this dongle is
> not recognized by the system. Anyone know where I can find software to
> run it?
> Avraham
>
>

I have had the same sort of problem since 9.10. I have come to the 
conclusion that the default Network Manager just doesn't like Atheros 
based Wi-Fi cards. I use "wicd" instead. It works perfectly. Available 
through Synaptic. HTH

		Dave