lost track of my wireless card

[Guest]

Hi,

see below:

jdewberr@jdewberr-lnx:~$ dmesg | grep -i wifi
[ 16.620000] iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.1.0
[ 16.620000] iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
jdewberr@jdewberr-lnx:~$



I have my wireless NIC but it's not in ifconfig:
jdewberr@jdewberr-lnx:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:37:1A6:27
inet addr:10.82.168.248 Bcast:10.82.168.255 Mask:255.255.255.240
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:37ff:fe1a:d627/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:62431 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:39866 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:79510203 (75.8 MB) TX bytes:3628479 (3.4 MB)
Base address:0x1840 Memory:fe200000-fe220000

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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

jdewberr@jdewberr-lnx:~$


just built the box...I know it's my fault. new to ubuntu and don't know how/where to look for things in this particular distro.

Thanks in Advance :-)

--
Joe
Kubuntu Newbie

[Btown1987]

Re: lost track of my wireless card

try iwconfig ifconfig is for wired connections.

[lingenfr]

Re: lost track of my wireless card

ifconfig will show it when it is working correctly. My research says that folks are having the best luck with ndiswrapper. There are some instructions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...ght=%284965%29

Looks like these instructions will work. DO NOT COMPILE AND INSTALL NDISWRAPPER. Unfortunately well intentioned, generous people keep advising folks to do this. It is not necessary. Install ndiswrapper from the repositories.

Also, before you get too far down the road with network-manager/knetworkmanager, get remove them and install wicd. If you search this forum, you will find more information. It is a bit fiddly to get the systray icon working, but once you do, it is much better than knetworkmanager.

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php

Make sure you read and follow the directions on that page and follow the link to get the systray icon working. Good luck.