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    wireless problem

    When I installed Kubuntu this afternoon, the network manager could see the wireless card, but couldn't enable it. I just started it up and now it can't even see the card.

    Is there a step by step tutorial with enabling wireless with ndiswrapper?

    edit: ok I reinstalled knetworkmanager and now it sees the card but I still can't enable it.

    Any hints?
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    Re: wireless problem

    Have you already tried enabling the wlan-card in command-line?

    try command ifconfig and iwconfig to check if the wlan-card is enabled or not.

    post the output of them here if you want perhaps we can tell you something more then.

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      Re: wireless problem

      Originally posted by vilanye
      When I installed Kubuntu this afternoon, the network manager could see the wireless card, but couldn't enable it. I just started it up and now it can't even see the card.
      what card have you got?

      Is there a step by step tutorial with enabling wireless with ndiswrapper?
      There are some info in the ubuntu/kubuntu wiki and on the ndiswrapper wiki. Try them.

      edit: ok I reinstalled knetworkmanager and now it sees the card but I still can't enable it.
      You can enable network devices from the System Settings control panel.

      Any hints?
      No, unless you supply more info about your network device and output scaphilo asked about. Also, please have a look at the ubuntu/kubuntu wiki before.
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        Re: wireless problem

        eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:36:8B:81:06
        inet addr:192.168.0.102 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
        inet6 addr: fe80::216:36ff:fe8b:8106/64 Scope:Link
        UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
        RX packets:205 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
        TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
        collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
        RX bytes:63573 (62.0 KiB) TX bytes:10311 (10.0 KiB)
        Interrupt:18 Base address:0xc000

        lo Link encap:Local Loopback
        inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
        inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
        UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
        RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
        TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
        collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
        RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

        david@david-laptop:~$ iwconfig
        lo no wireless extensions.

        eth0 no wireless extensions.

        eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"" Nickname:"Broadcom 4311"
        Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid
        RTS thrff Fragment thrff
        Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-256 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
        Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
        Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

        No I can't enable wireless in the System Settings. Pushing the enable buttons does nothing, not even an error message.

        Thanks for your help, I do appreciate it.

        My laptop is a HP dv9000 with a Turion proc and broadcom wireless card.
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          Re: wireless problem

          Ok, I got it to work, not sure how. The Ubuntu wiki was beyond unhelpful, but piddling around in the ndiswrapper worked. hopefully I can easily connect to other networks.

          Thanks for your help. Now all I need to do is to keep the crappy adept manager from crashing ever two seconds, and a few other things and hopefully this distro will become usable.
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