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Wireless Trouble

Asked by Jared Patton

I am having trouble connecting to the internet on my laptop that i just installed ubuntu 8.04 on, and my laptop does have a wireless network card. Does anyone know how to solve this?

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Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : 		#1

Can you open a terminal window (Applications menu, Accessories) and type

lspci

ifconfig

lsmod

and post the result here so that we can check out the current state of your setup.
What model laptop have you got? Is the wireless network card built-in or do you have a USB wireless card?

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Jared Patton (jaredpatton173) said : 		#2

Here is what it says...

jared@jared-laptop:~$ ispci
bash: ispci: command not found
jared@jared-laptop:~$ 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:2046 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2046 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:102300 (99.9 KB) TX bytes:102300 (99.9 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:3b:9c:3a:1d
          UP BROADCAST 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)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1F-3B-9C-3A-1D-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          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)

jared@jared-laptop:~$ ismod
bash: ismod: command not found

o, and fyi, i installed this inside windows, i dunno if that matters or not.

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Jared Patton (jaredpatton173) said : 		#3

o, nvm, i solved it.