Wireless Internet Problems

[arthurracoon]

I just recently installed the dapper version of Kubuntu

I opened the Wireless Assistant (Wireless LAN Manager)
It displayed the available networks, and I tried to connect to mine (and entered in the ASCII password), but it did not connect.

from sudo ifconfig (i read that the wireless card cannot be eth0 or lo, the only one left was eth1):

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:F0:3F:F8:9B
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc000 Memory:faffd000-faffdfff

from lspci, my ethernet (which works fine) and wireless card:

0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
0000:02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI Adapter (rev 05)


Do I need to install the ndiswrapper? what is wrong?

[sky]

Re: Wireless Internet Problems

Hi,

If it's really a broadcom, you should have to install ndiswrapper...

[arthurracoon]

Re: Wireless Internet Problems

the broadcom is for the ethernet, which works

the wireless card is the Intel card - the wireless assistant still picks up the other networks, just wont connect

[sky]

Re: Wireless Internet Problems

OK sorry I've read to fast you lspci lines :/
I've watched a little and saw that some people encouter troubles with this card, but it's using (or should use) the ipw2200 driver. I'm using it for a 2200 card and it's working great.
Can you tell us more about the network please ? Protection is off, wep, wpa ?
Do you get an error with these commands ?
iwconfig

If you get anything from this command can you post it please ? and also the content of /etc/network/interfaces

[sky]

Re: Wireless Internet Problems

Hi,

Just read this post, maybe it will help you to configure your wifi card.
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=13639.0

Cheers