the wifi sticks that worked on feisty but not on gutsy

[fleamailman]

OK, I have MSI wifi stick, and two others, everything was working like out of the box with ndiswrapper under feisty, but now I an get normal lan connection but it does not notice any wifi sticks, what should I do or download, thanks


other problems are unimportant but I have a goofy screen on start up which then corrects itself and I have an aplication crash whenever I visit the yahoo site for my mail

[integr8e]

Re: the wifi sticks that worked on feisty but not on gutsy

Open your /etc/network/interfaces file as root:

kdesudo kate /etc/network/interfaces

Make sure it looks something like the following:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

If it doesn't, add the missing entries to your config, make sure you leave a blank line at the end, save and close the document, log out, press Alt+E to restart your Xserver, and log back in. Check to see if your wifi stick is detected then and let me know the result.

[fleamailman]

Re: the wifi sticks that worked on feisty but not on gutsy

not sure if I have found the right one but the interfaces reads as
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

there is nothing else in the folder

[integr8e]

Re: the wifi sticks that worked on feisty but not on gutsy

That's the correct one; just insert the missing iformation into the file, and follow what I posted earlier.

[fleamailman]

Re: the wifi sticks that worked on feisty but not on gutsy

Ok, something going wrong here in that

kdesudo kate /etc/network/interfaces

the above is not opening the folder in run command under root, and when I try to adjust it nomally says I am no in root so I cannot, guess I am missing something

[integr8e]

Re: the wifi sticks that worked on feisty but not on gutsy

Try running "sudo kate /etc/network/interfaces" from a console; if that doesn't work, try using another editor such as Kwrite:

kdesudo kwrite /etc/network/interfaces

Yet again, if that doesn't work, try editing the file via CLI (Command Line Interface):

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

One of the above should definitely work.

[fleamailman]

Re: the wifi sticks that worked on feisty but not on gutsy

the kate line in run command doesn't open anything whereas the sudo nano line in terminal gets to it but then when I paste the new text I don't know how to get it to save

[integr8e]

Re: the wifi sticks that worked on feisty but not on gutsy

Press Ctrl+X (to exit the document); it will ask you if you want to save, and if you choose "y", ask you where (the default location should be correct).

[fleamailman]

Re: the wifi sticks that worked on feisty but not on gutsy

am on to it when I get home, thanks