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11 Feb 2009, 10:57 pm

I have installed Ubuntu, but I can't get the wireless to work on it. I can still use it on the Windows desktop, but no go on ubuntu. Any help?

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11 Feb 2009, 11:15 pm

Which version of Ubuntu is it? If you're using the LTS (8.04) version, wifi is still a bit spotty in that release. The newest version (8.10) has better support. Are you using 32-bit or 64-bit? Do you know what kind of wifi chipset you have? (If not, open a command prompt and type "lspci -vv" and look for "network controller" near the bottom of a massive block of text that will appear)

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12 Feb 2009, 12:16 am

As Orwell said, we need some specs to help you, I had major problems installing my broadcom chipset

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12 Feb 2009, 2:52 am

what kind of wireless card are you using?

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12 Feb 2009, 4:38 am

if you do possess that information what model machine is it, otherwise open a terminal in ubuntu and post the response of lspci

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12 Feb 2009, 6:05 am

You can get it from the driver list in windows too.

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12 Feb 2009, 6:41 am

easier and more information from lspci -v atleast

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12 Feb 2009, 7:07 pm

Okay, here's the thing, I'm using 8.1, and ,my windows driver cannot be read. The troubleshooting tells me to install NDISwrapper from the install disk, but my "install disk" is on my flash drive (I have no CD drive), so when I try to install the updates synaptic manager tries to read from the cd and gives an error message and ceases to function.

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12 Feb 2009, 7:12 pm

Rafter613 wrote:

No CD drive, so I'm guessing this is some kind of netbook?

More details really would be helpful.

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12 Feb 2009, 10:55 pm

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/mount-and-unm ... -them.html

Try this out. Worked great for me.

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12 Feb 2009, 11:02 pm

the problem is that apt expects your CD drive to be a source for packages, in software sources disable the entry called something like Ubuntu 8.10 CD

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12 Feb 2009, 11:08 pm

Rafter613 wrote:

What type of wireless do you have? if you don't know, open the terminal and type

Code:

lspci

. It will then list a bunch of stuff out, look for Network Controller and tell us what it says. It's probably on the bottom

You need to tell the computer to stop looking at cd or flash drive for updates. Open terminal and type in

Code:

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

You need to put a # in front of the deb cdrom part like below

Code:

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.10 _Intrepid Ibex_ - Release i386 (20081029.5)]/ intrepid main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main restricted

your should look somewhat similar

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12 Feb 2009, 11:12 pm

you mean

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sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

or use Software Sources under System -> Administration

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12 Feb 2009, 11:16 pm

Daedulus wrote:

you mean

Code:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

oops

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12 Feb 2009, 11:26 pm

sudo su/sudo -i ftw! Having to type sudo every couple seconds is annoying for post-install stuff.

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13 Feb 2009, 2:30 am

yesplease wrote:

sudo su/sudo -i ftw! Having to type sudo every couple seconds is annoying for post-install stuff.

I imagine it would, but you don't have to type sudo every couple of seconds

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