Cant enable wireless adapter

[tropnevad]

I Cant enable wireless adapter, on packard bell easynote

it is a friends computer who i am helping to setup ubuntu on, and i got everyhting working, just the wireless does not work. It could be that the driver does not work, but i dont think this is the case. The wifi is enables with a button on the pc, but this button does not work in ubuntu, and the wireless light is on untill i log in to ubuntu.

So is there any way i can enable the wireless device in the terminal or anything?

Thanks in advance

[hydo1]

what easynote device is it
i am havin the same problem with mine

[pastalavista]

Have you tried connecting with an ethernet (wired) connection? 99 times out of 100 that will work. Then a simple update will usually find the driver you need for wireless.

[kay-man]

Please run the following commands from a terminal and post the output:

sudo ifconfig

sudo iwconfig

sudo lshw -class Network

So hopefully we'll get an idea of what's going on.

[jbarden]

I'm new on the forum and not sure this is where to ask this question. I have Dell Inspiron 531 and I loaded U 9.04 and everything worked but the wireless card. I ran "sudo lshw C network" on the terminal and the wireless interface was indicated as "Disabled". There is no hardware switch (to turn it back on) so I'm thinking this device is not supported by UBUNTU. Can any help with this problem? THANKS

The following is all the data I got when I ran "sudo lshw C network".

*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@0000:01:09.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32 module=ssb
*-network:0 DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:1d:60:00:68:9a
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
*-network:1 DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: pan0
serial: 4a:db:89:00:7a:09
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes

[kay-man]

A quick search with google shows you don't have the easiest card to set up.

But it should be possible, here are some links you might find helpful:

http://www.foogazi.com/2008/04/28/how-to-enable-bcm43xx-in-ubuntu-804/#comment-37911

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=525201

Maybe you should check out the second link first.

Good luck!

[MeatCleaver]

I have an Atheros 5400 Wifi card but i want it to be set on by default on startup, is there any way i can do that