No Wireless on 8.10

[jfig345]

Hello everyone. I got Ubuntu 8.10 yesterday.

I have been trying to get my wireless set up but have not been having any luck.
I did read the wireless on the "how to" but didnt have any luck there either.

I have put in my network information however if I mouse over the network icon on the taskbar it tells me that the device is not enabled.

The only command that I have put in the terminal is


sudo ifconfig eth1 down
which I read on a howto

Is this causing the problem.

I am typing from my laptop which is on the same wireless network so I know the network is up and running. Any help would be appreciated.

8.10 is on my desktop

[Crandom]

Which wireless card do you have? Have you installed any drivers for it? What is the model of the laptop?

Try going to System > Administation > Hardware Drivers and if your wireless driver is there, check the checkbox and restart your pc. If not, reply to the questions.

[jfig345]

here is the output of


lspci
lshw -class network

I had to copy a txt file from ubuntu onto a flash disk but here it is


[\john@john-desktop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
00:0a.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
00:0e.0 Communication controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. HSF 56k HSFi Modem (rev 01)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
john@john-desktop:~$ lshw -class network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network:0
description: Network controller
product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: a
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32 module=ssb
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
product: VT6102 [Rhine-II]
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 12
bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
logical name: eth0
version: 74
serial: 00:0c:6e:2f:70:83
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=via-rhine driverversion=1.4.3 latency=32 maxlatency=8 mingnt=3 module=via_rhine multicast=yes
*-network:0
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:1e:e5:20:35:59
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: aa:13:d5:5c:33:5c
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A multicast=yes


Hope this helps

[jfig345]

Its a wireless G
If I go to hardware drivers it says
broadcomm b43 wireless driver is enabled.

[jfig345]

if I type


sudo iwlist scan

I can see my network but it still says my device is not managed.