I realize the magnitude of all the "Can't Connect to Wireless" threads, butttt....

[Nomad5150]

I am a complete Newbie to this stuff, but I have an HP Pavilion Dv7, and like everyone else who is having problems, I too, cannot connect to the internet through wireless or through a cable. I've done a bit of research and I can see that each computer has its own quirks. I downloaded Ubuntu 11.04 from the "Windows Installer" and partitioned my drive. I know that my ethernet card isn't supported. Please help me.

[Nomad5150]

Also, i have a realtek card.

[nothingspecial]

Well, you need to give some information.

Press Ctrl-Alt-T to open a terminal and type

sudo lshw -C network

Then post the resulting gobbldygook back here

**note** you will have to type your password which you will not see as you type.

[Nomad5150]

*-network               
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:d9000000-d9003fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:26:9e:15:32:14
       size: 10Mbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
       resources: irq:46 ioport:5000(size=256) memory:d1010000-d1010fff memory:d1000000-d100ffff memory:d1020000-d102ffff
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 0c:60:76:40:69:c3
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43 driverversion=3.0.0-12-generic firmware=N/A link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

[bkratz]

You actually have a broadcom wireless card


product: Bcm4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY


You should be able to find what you need in post 3 of this thread

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1932922

[Nomad5150]

Awesome! Thank you. I'll try these methods out tonight.

[ratcheer]

Also, your Ethernet card can be made to work by installing a good, working driver, too.

Download driver r8168 version 8.028. It is pretty easy to find via Google.

Make sure you have packages build-essential and linux-headers-<your kernel version> installed on your system.

cd to the r8168-8.028.00 directory and run "sudo ./autorun.sh"

Your Ethernet connection should come up. Sometimes it helps to blacklist the r8169 driver.

Tim

[bkratz]

Awesome! Thank you. I'll try these methods out tonight.

Sorry, I didn't notice that you don't have ethernet either--you will need to get the wired connection working first since you will have to download the wireless drivers so do Ratcheer's suggestions first.

[ratcheer]

Sorry, I didn't notice that you don't have ethernet either--you will need to get the wired connection working first since you will have to download the wireless drivers so do Ratcheer's suggestions first.

He needs to download the driver for Ethernet card, too. I hope he has sneakernet.

Tim

[Nomad5150]

I guess I have 11.10 not 11.04. I also tried to download the packages and the linux header but probably did the wrong one or don't know how. Ill figure it out on the weekend I guess. Thanks though