Wireless, daft question.

[jesuses left leg]

How do you go about actually connecting to the wireless network because i have it all set up, recognised, enabled no more problems but i don't know how to connect to a network . Thanks in advance.

[Nirvana]

Re: Wireless, daft question.

How do you go about actually connecting to the wireless network because i have it all set up, recognised, enabled no more problems but i don't know how to connect to a network . Thanks in advance.

Shouldn't it automatically be connected? Or try putting the IP of the wireless network you connect to in the configuration screen your network.

[jesuses left leg]

Re: Wireless, daft question.

Thats what I did but the wireless little symbol for the network is red and there is no connection to the internet. Also in "KWiFiManager" it says it has full signal and says it is connected to "any" but when i search for available networks it says "default" (which is the name of my network) but there appears to be no way to connect to it..

[xwakingedenx]

Re: Wireless, daft question.

having the same problem....a little more detail may be required....fresh install of Kubuntu Dapper Filght 2 then configured wireless card but when press enable, it says its disabled weird thing is the enable button is grayed out. Everything is filled out correctly so whats the deal??

(a quick response would be helpful)

[sky]

Re: Wireless, daft question.

Hi,

Can you give us the following output please ?
sudo iwconfig
and
sudo ifconfig
and also content of your /etc/network/interfaces (without password if in clear)
It will be really usefull to help.

[jesuses left leg]

Re: Wireless, daft question.

Output of "sudo iwconfig"

matt@ubuntu:~$ sudo iwconfig
Password:
lo    no wireless extensions.

wlan0   IEEE 802.11b ESSID:off/any
     Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
     Bit Rate:11 Mb/s  Tx-Power:20 dBm  Sensitivity=0/3
     RTS thr:2432 B  Fragment thr:2432 B
     Encryption key:off
     Power Management:off
     Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-95 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
     Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
     Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0  Missed beacon:0

sit0   no wireless extensions.

Output of "sudo ifconfig"

matt@ubuntu:~$ sudo ifconfig
lo    Link encap:Local Loopback
     inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
     inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
     UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
     RX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
     RX bytes:4451 (4.3 KiB) TX bytes:4451 (4.3 KiB)

wlan0   Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:C2:5F:EA
     inet addr:82.38.176.56 Bcast:82.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
     inet6 addr: fe80::240:f4ff:fec2:5fea/64 Scope:Link
     UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
     RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
     RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
     Memory:ea000000-ea0000ff

Content of "/etc/network/interfaces"

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

iface wlan0 inet static
address 82.38.176.56
netmask 255.255.255.0



auto wlan0

[vetto]

Re: Wireless, daft question.

in the interfaces file, add

wireless-essid [i]your access points essid[/i]

Are you using WEP or WPA in the router?

[jesuses left leg]

Re: Wireless, daft question.

I'm using neither it's an open network theres no security on it. I think that's what you meant anyway. Sorry if that's wrong. Thanks for the help i'll see if it works.

[sky]

Re: Wireless, daft question.

It seems that you get no AP address, can you check in kwifimanager if you're getting one ?
If yes, then as you're in static ip, maybe you will have to configure it also :
in /etc/network/interfaces, add :
wireless-ap <mac address of AP>