How to make my WiFi working?

[drasmadi]

Guys,

I am a newbie and has very little knowledge about Linux. I have successfully installed kubuntu but the WiFi doesn't work. When I try to go through kmenu > Internet > Wireless Assistant Wireless LAN Manager .. then i enter the root password.

But then a popup window appeared and said that:

'You might have insufficient permission for Wireless Assistant to function properly. Did you run it using 'sudo'?

So, I fail to get my computer connected to internet through my WiFi. So what should I do? How to overcome this? Pls help...

Thanks.

[lingenfr]

Re: How to make my WiFi working?

You don't say which version you are using, but I assume Edgy since wireless assistant dones not work in edgy. Bring up a terminal and type the following:

sudo ifconfig

See what comes up. Depending on the type of wifi, it may be ath0, eth1, wifi0, wlan0. It won't be lo or eth0. There should be one (maybe two other interfaces. If your wireless adapter has an IP address, you should be good to go. If not type the following (assuming you have wlan0 if not put in your interface:

sudo ifdown wlan0
sudo ifup wlan0

I expect that will take care of it. If not, you might try specifying your essid and channel with

sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid youressid (put in the essid for your wlan)
sudo iwconfig wlan0 channel # (put in whatever channel your wlan uses)

Good luck.

[drasmadi]

Re: How to make my WiFi working?

tq.

cut why when I typed:

sudo ipconfig then there was an error said 'command not found'?

[toad]

Re: How to make my WiFi working?

ipconfig is the windows command, you should type

sudo ifconfig

But apart from all that you should install Knetworkmanager. To do so, go into System and select Adept Manager. Type in networkmanager and select the package. Install.

You now have a neat little icon on your taskbar from which you can choose whichever network you can see (and know the password to )