[SOLVED] no wifi interface,no internet icon??

[rixtr66]

i just installed ubuntu studio onto an external hard drive and it boots up
fine but theres no icon for the internet,no interface,how do i get the inter face up and running??i know its there somewhere i used this distro
before and it had one,is there an apt-get or dpkg i hve to use??
rick:confused:

[bobnutfield]

Is this a wired or wireless connection you are trying to achieve? Open a terminal and type:


sudo ifconfig -a

This will tell you what interfaces are available, whether they are working or not.

Bob

[rixtr66]

it is a wireless connection im trying to get.
rick

[bobnutfield]

OK, what was the output of the ifconfig -a command? Is your wireless card listed? If not, what is the wireless card? If you are using Windows and booting Ubuntu from the external drive, does the wireless work in Windows?

[rixtr66]

icant show you the output,but it did say i had ethernet0,and lo but no
wlan???it shows up fine in ubuntu i have to use an ndis wrapper.
the thing is i had wireless on studio before.is there a way to get
studio to see my wireless card its an atheros somthing.

[bobnutfield]

Whatever method you used to get it working in Ubuntu should also work in Studio, and if you used ndiswrapper in Ubuntu, the same will be required in Studio. Type:


lspci

in terminal to make sure it is being recognized in the hardware, and then just set it up the way you did in Ubuntu.

Bob

[rixtr66]

well it worked kinda i had to go through the network settings,thanks
rick

[bobnutfield]

Glad you got going.