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On 31/01/12 08:31, SMR wrote:
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style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:arial">For
me this question I have noticed once. In my school, we have the
school Internet access for our school website like bbs.
<div>When i worked on windows it worked well and i can always
get the IP address automatically. But when i used Ubuntu it
could not find the wireless net . I had to type in the name of
the net to search for the hidden wireless net and then Ubuntu
could find the right net to get the IP address.</div>
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<div>The reason I think is the drivers of my <span
style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align: left; "> WLAN </span><span style="font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; ">card which
has some problems. But I can not sure.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif">However I think the reason is simple if it was
true, the WLAN card company does not support Linux well. But
because the problem is hard to fix so I give up and after
all I can use it now so I don't think it is a big problem.</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif"><br>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif">My advice for you is to check webiste of your </font><span
style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> WLAN </span><span
style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">card </span><span
style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">company </span><span
style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">to see
whether they support Linux or not.</span></div>
<div> I hope it can help you.</div>
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<div>Best wishes!<br>
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Hi,<br>
You could try running<br>
sudo iwlist scanning<br>
to see if more networks are detected. You could also try using the
standard network-manager (sudo apt-get install network-manager
network-manager-gnome), and see if more networks are found. Failing
that, you could <a
href="http://nixcraft.com/ubuntu-debian/13278-etc-network-interfaces-wireless-wifi-example.html">edit
/etc/network/interfaces</a> and force the interface to connect to
a certain wifi access point.<br>
<br>
Joshua<br>
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