Wireless Connection Broken after Reinstall Tribe5 with Latest Updates

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I was having trouble with the latest updates so I decided to reinstall Tribe 5 as I also had been unable to get the wireless connection to work. I have an ATI card on my ASUS Notebook, so the text mode was used for installation and after reboot in the recovery mode I did the following:
1. Updated package lists and upgraded any packages needed.
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
2. Installed fglrx closed source driver for my ATI video card.
apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
3. Updated loaded modules.
depmod -a
4. Configured /etc/X11/xorg.conf
aticonfig --initial
aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
5. Rebooted

This gave me the KDE desktop and I was able to setup my Wireless router connection as all the previous activities were done using an Ethernet connection to a Netgear WGR614v7 router. When I selected Manual Network Configuration, the wireless connection, under TCP/IP Address, had neither the Automatic nor the Manual buttons highlighted. The IP address that was showing was one that I had selected for another PC connected the the router but was not on at the time. To avoid any conflict I decided to select the Manual option and define the IP address I wanted. After a reboot, I could no longer get the wireless connection.

I now think that I will have to change all the PC's on my home network to use DHCP for connection to the router. Is there any way of getting back to the original wireless connection where neither the Automatic or Manual connections are highlighted?

[NoWorries]

Re: Wireless Connection Broken after Reinstall Tribe5 with Latest Updates

I was having trouble with the latest updates so I decided to reinstall Tribe 5 as I also had been unable to get the wireless connection to work. I have an ATI card on my ASUS Notebook, so the text mode was used for installation and after reboot in the recovery mode I did the following:
1. Updated package lists and upgraded any packages needed.
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
2. Installed fglrx closed source driver for my ATI video card.
apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
3. Updated loaded modules.
depmod -a
4. Configured /etc/X11/xorg.conf
aticonfig --initial
aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
5. Rebooted

This gave me the KDE desktop and I was able to setup my Wireless router connection as all the previous activities were done using an Ethernet connection to a Netgear WGR614v7 router. When I selected Manual Network Configuration, the wireless connection, under TCP/IP Address, had neither the Automatic nor the Manual buttons highlighted. The IP address that was showing was one that I had selected for another PC connected the the router but was not on at the time. To avoid any conflict I decided to select the Manual option and define the IP address I wanted. After a reboot, I could no longer get the wireless connection.

I now think that I will have to change all the PC's on my home network to use DHCP for connection to the router. Is there any way of getting back to the original wireless connection where neither the Automatic or Manual connections are highlighted?

I have now reinstalled Kubuntu Gutsy Tribe 5 on my ASUS F3J notebook, and I must say it went though much much better than before. For example, on previous installs in the "apt-get dist-upgrade" step, the system stopped for some time on: "Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald". It then eventually reported; "Errors encountered while processing: hal, kde-guidance-powermanager, kubuntu-desktop, network-manager, network-manager-kde".

This time I did not use KNetworkManager to alter the wireless router settings, but I did use it to define the manual IP addresses for the notebook Ethernet connection, and the PC's on my Home Network. The wireless connection now comes up with the correct IP address. I now have a stable internet connection .

To get nfs working so that I can transfer files between the computers on the LAN, I found that the nfs parameters in the fstab entry that I used for Fiesty, ie rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr, caused the connection to fail. When removed, the nfs connection worked and I could transfer files between the PCs on the LAN. I used the same procedures for the /etc/exports file in both systems, only the fstab differed.

The last option, that I wanted to get going, was to run on the Notebook, the primary email package Thunderbird that is on another LAN PC. That is now working reliably and I must say that I am a very happy chappy .

I certainly hope that in the final release, the Network settings are more straight forward.