Problems with recognizing Wireless Card (solved)

[sg1200]

Hello,
I just installed Kubuntu 9.04 yesterday, because I need Kate for school.
Unfortunatly I'm having problems to get my Internet working. I'm having a HP Notebook with a 4965AGN Wireless Card. I don't know if the system doesn't recognize it or if I'm simply too inexperrienced to simply activate it. I tried to find a solution in various forums, but was lost to the -to me- cryptic driver installation manuals.
On other sites I found the information that in 9.04 the driver is already installed.
Can anybody help me? I would really appreciate it.

[The Liquidator]

Re: Problems with recognizing Wireless Card

In a terminal type lspci, which should tell you whether it is detected.

Is it?

[flarson]

Re: Problems with recognizing Wireless Card

Almost certainly the drivers are installed. The problem is more likely to be the network configuration software.
lsmod | grep iwlagn
will show you if the driver is installed in the kernel.
KDE network applet is worthless.
sudo aptitude install wicd
and set it up will probably solve your problem.

[sg1200]

Re: Problems with recognizing Wireless Card

I tried lspci.
The network card is detected.
How do I activate it?

[The Liquidator]

Re: Problems with recognizing Wireless Card

It probably is already. As mando says, it's probably a configuration issue.

if you select start/system settings, do you then see a networking icon? If so, clicking on it, should then show all wireless routers within range. You could connect from there, but it will involve the use of passwords etc.

Alternatively, I am a fairly new member of the wicd fan club. If you install that (it is in the main repositories so you can do it in your package manager) you will find it removes a couple of other network manager packages, which are probably simply failing you anyway.

Reboot (I think) and then you ought to see a wireless icon in the taskbar. Clicking on that should then enable you to see and then configure your networks security settings. Alternatively, you may need to run the application first.

Some of the wordings may not be 100% precise as I'm not at a Linux box right now.

HTH.

[sg1200]

Re: Problems with recognizing Wireless Card

Ok, this is what I get for lsmod | grep iwlagn:
iwlan 100228 0
iwlcore 93184 iwlagn
mac80211 217208 2 iwlagn,iwlcore
cfg80211 38032 3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211

However if I'm using sudo aptitude install wicd, it says that there are no packages named wcid an nothing is installed.
What now?

[sg1200]

Re: Problems with recognizing Wireless Card

unfortunatly there is no network icon.
Where do I find the package manager?

[flarson]

Re: Problems with recognizing Wireless Card

Since you are using Jaunty 9.04 it is available in the universe repository. I think that is enabled by default but you should make sure, either through your favorite GUI package manager or by looking at /etc/apt/sources.list. After it is enabled, run
sudo aptitude update
It should be available.

[flarson]

Re: Problems with recognizing Wireless Card

You will need to get some network connectivity or download the .deb from Ubuntu and move it to you r linux box somehow, USB, CD, ... It can then be installed with
sudo dpkg -i wicd_1.5.9-2_all.deb

[flarson]

Re: Problems with recognizing Wireless Card

You could also configure the wireless using /etc/network/interfaces. I have given directions for that on this forum a few times in that last month so you should be able to find them here.

[The Liquidator]

Re: Problems with recognizing Wireless Card

I suspect there is no icon because it needs a widget installing onto the panel.I'll talk you through installing wicd rather than going there. You will need a wired connection.

In 9.04 the package manager is called kpackagekit. Click on start and in the search box type kpa and you should see it. You can select wicd from there.

However you could also use a terminal (in KDE it's called Konsole - start and type kons in thesearchbox).

In the terminal you can simply type

 sudo apt-get install wicd

and then type in your password. So long as you are connected to the internet the system will download, install it and remove the conflicting other packages.

[sg1200]

Re: Problems with recognizing Wireless Card

when I try to get anything related to /etc/... I always get permission denied

[The Liquidator]

Re: Problems with recognizing Wireless Card

I suspect that's because to access /etc you need to be root.

[flarson]

Re: Problems with recognizing Wireless Card

Many system files are writable only by root. You can become root using sudo or kdesudo. If you want to run a KDE program such as kate you should use
kdesudo kate /etc/network/interfaces

[sg1200]

Re: Problems with recognizing Wireless Card

I suspect there is no icon because it needs a widget installing onto the panel.I'll talk you through installing wicd rather than going there. You will need a wired connection.

In 9.04 the package manager is called kpackagekit. Click on start and in the search box type kpa and you should see it. You can select wicd from there.

However you could also use a terminal (in KDE it's called Konsole - start and type kons in thesearchbox).

In the terminal you can simply type

 sudo apt-get install wicd

and then type in your password. So long as you are connected to the internet the system will download, install it and remove the conflicting other packages.

I now have internet connection via cable and tried upadting with the terminal
however I get: Could not find package wicd. (Sorry if thats not the right error declaration, but I needed to translate it)