Eric Lemoine <eric.lemoine@gmail.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <div>On 10/19/06, C Hamel <YOGICH@SC2000.NET>wrote: > On Wednesday 18 October 2006 21:49, H.S. wrote: > <SNIP> > > > > > Just a question : does it work if you manually configure > > > /etc/network/interfaces or is the problem lying somewhere else? > > > > I just tried manually as well, using iwconfig command to set the essid, > > the key and also the access point without success. > > > > BTW, I am using a D-Link DWL-G520 in master mode in another PC on my > > home lan. Thus that PC is a wireless router. If I use tcpdump on that pc > > to listen on the wireless device when I am trying to get a dhcp address > > from that machine on the laptop running Ubuntu, I see no traffic at all. > > > > Also, a Mac laptop and the same laptop in Windows (which dual boots with > > Ubuntu) works okay. > > > > It is only Ubuntu that the problem seems to be in. > > > > ->HS > I am having probs, as well. Gentoo, SuSE both worked (ndiswrapper) but > kubuntu seems to not want to give me any throughput (both ndiswrapper & > bcm43xx). I actually started a thread yesterday morning about this. My card > is active but invalid access point --even when I am on top of the AP. > Doesn't matter what network I try to access --airports, Starbucks, > Barnes/Noble, whatever. Set the ESSID to 'ANY'. > > There is a sniffer tool and I cannot, for the life of me, remember what that > tool is. It's connected to the wireless tools pkg. Haven't tried that, for > obvious reasons. One more question : does dmesg tell you something is wrong with bcm43xx when you try to configure wireless? </div> <div>I requested help for a wireless problem a few days back. I tried loading the windows driver and the ndiswrapper for the internal modem and got the message error that it was the incorrect driver.... I also have a USB modem working perfectly with Kubuntu 6.06, that will not operate under Ubuntu 6.10. Is there a known issue and will it be fixed in full release version? I much prefer Ubuntu and would prefer to sort wireless issue -- Eric -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </div></BLOCKQUOTE>