9.04 doesn't find my wireless card

[pkaplan1]

I'm running 9.04 with a D-Link DWL-G650 wireless card. In prior versions of kubuntu, the card was recognized as ath0. After installing 9.04, I can't find the card.

Can someone help me find it?
Paul

[Sissy]

Re: 9.04 doesn't find my wireless card

I went through that on upgrade too.

What do you have in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ? (Note: the "70" may be different on your machine.)

From your comment, I'm guessing that you usually connect via the terminal. Is that correct?

[pkaplan1]

Re: 9.04 doesn't find my wireless card

What do you have in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ? (Note: the "70" may be different on your machine.)

From your comment, I'm guessing that you usually connect via the terminal. Is that correct?

Actually I had always let knetworkmanager handle things, but when I had problems in 9.04 I switched to wicd. It was when that didn't connect that I realized there was no ath0.

In any case here is /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
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# This file maintains persistent names for network interfaces.
# See udev(7) for syntax.
#
# Entries are automatically added by the 75-persistent-net-generator.rules
# file; however you are also free to add your own entries.

# PCI device 0x8086:0x101e (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:11:25:2c:e7:69", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

# PCI device 0x8086:0x1043 (ipw2100)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:0c:f1:0c:97:da", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"

# PCI device 0x168c:0x0013 (ath5k_pci)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:0f:3d:3c:92:56", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan0"
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Paul

[Sissy]

Re: 9.04 doesn't find my wireless card

I'm not familiar with wicd. However, I've been told that the name has changed for Atheros wireless in 9.04.

Try replacing "ath0" by "wlan0" everywhere that it appears in /etc/network/interfaces (no quotes).

[sophmf]

Re: 9.04 doesn't find my wireless card

I had exactly that problem and I solved it as proposed by Sissy: changed ath0 into wlan0 in the Preferences - Wireless interface in WICD (not in /etc/network/interfaces but I guess it's the same).

[pkaplan1]

Re: 9.04 doesn't find my wireless card

I had exactly that problem and I solved it as proposed by Sissy: changed ath0 into wlan0 in the Preferences - Wireless interface in WICD (not in /etc/network/interfaces but I guess it's the same).

Thanks guys. Changing to wlan0 solved the problem.
Paul

[Guest]

Re: 9.04 doesn't find my wireless card

Similar problem here- maybe other details, maybe a clue. After the std upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 the knetmanager disappeared. Kickoff said no such program, Synaptic Package Manager found it right away. No way to access it or wlan. Contents of persistent-net rules are as follows.

# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line.

# PCI device 0x14e4:0x1713 (tg3)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:16:d4:de:dc:b0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

# PCI device 0x8086:0x4229 (iwlagn)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1d:e0:b7:37:1d", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan0"


Running a System 76 Pangolin w/ 1.83 duo-core 64-bit Intel.

Help?

[sithlord48]

Re: 9.04 doesn't find my wireless card

using 9.04 you will need to use the "plasma-widget-network-manager" be sure that it is installed then you will need to add the widget to your panel/desktop (don't matter) the name of it is "network-manager"

or (my personal suggestion) just install wicd and enjoy your wifi card. (run iwconfig from a konsole to find your card's "name").