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spoke too soon, at restart I cant get the internet to work.

Thanks for all the help, I am finally on the internet again, although I have no idea how. I guess I will just try not to turn off this computer to keep the internet on. I found out that using boot...

I tried to unplug both of my mouses. I think it is a problem with my pc because livecd works on other computers with the same mouse, and BOTH of the mouses do not work. I tried irqpoll, no luck....

no one has any ideas?

I tried getting it with network manager, thats how I got it to work those 2 times, although I dont know, whether it was luck or boot options or something else.
Btw can you tell me where that symbol...

bump anyone got any ideas?

For some reason, after about 5 minutes of messing around with ubuntu, my mouse just freezes. The keyboard works, and all other usb slots work, it is only the mouse that freezes. I have tried...

No I am using Hardy, I tried the U.S robotics one and says invalid driver like the one from SMC. The installation cd is the only one that appears to work.

bump help please

Ok I have unplugged the usb mouse, and now am using mousekeys.
I tried to add the .inf file from the smc one in the windows XP folder, not that autorun thing. It said something like smc2862w.inf....

I know the driver from my cd works, because an week ago after playing around with network manager, I managed to get on the internet for like 5 minutes, until my usb mouse froze like it always does. I...

may i ask how did you get it to work?

The driver from the installation cd says hardware present, but the ones downloaded on the internet and moved to my computer with a flash drive does not work. Ndiswrapper just says invalid driver.

auto run : invalid driver
smc2862w: diver installed
device (1260:EE22) present

couldnt find the symbol you used after lsmod, so i just typed lsmod.
odule Size Used by
af_packet 23812 0
ipv6 267780 8
rfcomm ...

My wireless card is SMC EZ connect 2862W, and I am sure I have the right driver for it because I got it off the installation cd, and Ubuntu does recognize it, I can see all the networks and stuff...

this is sudo dhclient -r wlan0 by the way:
listening on LPF/wlan0/00:12:bf:11:ac:4b
sending on LPF/wlan0/00:12:bf:11:ac:4b
PHCPREALEASE on wlan0 to 192.168.1.254
send_packet: Network is...

sorry for taking to long, my mouse freezes after 2 minutes
this is sudo dhclient wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights...

Oh ok fixed that, now heres the response to the command
sudo wpa_supplicant -w -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

it says associated with 00:le:c7:el:28:fq over and over and over and over...

my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

ap_scan=1
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

network={
ssid="my network name"
scan_ssid=0
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK

please help

excuse me for being a complete noob, but how do i kill wpa supplicant?

help please.........

please help, anyone have any idea what's going on?

yea i i found out i forgot the underscore, but i am still having problems.
when i type the command now, it says
c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_iface exists and seems to be in use - cannot override...