Gutsy Gibbon What Gives?

[Guest]

OK, I tried the live CD and it's awsome. It found my wireless device without a hitch. I entered the SSID and WPA passphrase and was surfing the net.

Next I did a clean install and and found that gutsy Gibbon found no wireless device what-so-ever. I plead my case, what happened between the time I used the live CD and a few minutes later after the OS was permanently installed and failed to find any wireless device at all.

[silvagroup]

Re: Gutsy Gibbon What Gives?

What happened is configuration.
The liveCD is configured differently than your live install.
Check the liveCD packages that were installed and the wireless config and do the same on your hd install.
Not having wireless that's about as far as I can take you for now, or just hang in there and some one with a little more horsepower will soon fill in the gaps.

[integr8e]

Re: Gutsy Gibbon What Gives?

Press Alt+F2 and enter the command

kdesudo kate /etc/network/interfaces

Save the document as interfaces.bak (in case you need to restore it) and replace its contents with the following, saving the document, again, as just interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

auto ath0
#iface ath0 inet dhcp

Then, save & exit all open programs and press Alt+Ctrl+Backspace to restart your Xserver. See if you have a wireless connection after you log in, if not, open System Settings (KMenu -> System Settings) -> Network Settings -> Administrator Mode (button on bottom-right) and see if your wireless connection is detected. If it is, but not enabled, click it and click "Configure Interface" (button close to the middle-left of the window); then, choose "Automatic: DHCP" and "Activate when computer starts". Restart your Xserver again and you should be good to go, if not, let us know and we'll figure out what the deal is.

[marshallbanana]

Re: Gutsy Gibbon What Gives?

If integr8e's suggestion doesn't work, type the following command into the command line and post the response on this forum (the command tells you about the current status of the wireless devices you have):

iwconfig

the output should tell us something about what is wrong with your wireless.

[smeghead67]

Re: Gutsy Gibbon What Gives?

OK I'm jumping in here.

I have 7.10 set up (dual boot with XP) but it doesn't see my wireless card. its not listed in Network settings.

the system sees it when I run lspci -v
result:

Network controller: ADMtek ADM8211 802.11b Wireless Interface (rev 11)
Subsystem: Abocom Systems Inc Unknown device ab60
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at de00 [size=256]
Memory at fe9eec00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Expansion ROM at 50000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

So I found the driver and ran ndiswrapper
result:

ndiswrapper -l
netadm11 : driver installed
device (1317:8201) present

I set my /etc/network/interfaces to the above.

After reset still no happiness and no interface.
And I ran iwconfig and get.

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

I need some help here. Thank you in advance.

[Guest]

Re: Gutsy Gibbon What Gives?

I want to thank Integr8e publicly. This is a most informative and accurate fix for my problem. The detail provided is right on target. It worked like a charm and made my day. Nice job, it's great to know that this answer cut through the chase and provided a solution that worked right away.

[integr8e]

Re: Gutsy Gibbon What Gives?

hgfire1 - Thanks, I really don't know what to say.&#160; I'm just glad I could help

smeghead67 - If you open System Settings -> Network Settings -> Administrator Mode, does it show any connection?&#160; If it does, click the "Configure Interface" button and choose "Automatic: DHCP" and "Activate when computer starts".&#160; Then, click the "Enable Interface" button and see if it connects.&#160; If no devices are shown, you may not have the needed driver for your particular card installed; in that case, please post your card type.