I've looked online and followed many guides and can't seem to get internet to work reliably. I have a Thinkpad X61 running Xubuntu through Wubi. I have tried Ubuntu and Kubuntu already and internet does not work on those either. I've tried Network Manager, Wicd, and command line interface.
Wicd was able to connect for a few minutes twice (was able to visit www.google.com) but it usually gets stuck at obtaining ip address. Network Manager and Wicd sometimes show that they are connected, but pinging google (64.233.169.99) cannot find google.
When Wicd says it is connected but cannot ping, (The 1 Mb/s is also sometimes a higher number like 48 Mb/s but it still cannot ping)
Here's my lshw. I believe the driver is there.
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR5212 802.11abg NIC
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wifi0
version: 01
serial: **:**:**:**:**:**
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath_pci ip=***.***.*.*** latency=0 module=ath_pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
iwconfig gives:
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"**********" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: **:**:**:**:**:**
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:8 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=47/70 Signal level=-51 dBm Noise level=-98 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:57918 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
ifconfig gives
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr **:**:**:**:**
inet addr:***.***.*.*** Bcast:***.***.*.*** Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: ****::***:****:****:****/** Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:161 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1240 (1.2 KB) TX bytes:9687 (9.6 KB)
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When I use command line, I followed these instructions: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=571188
After running, I get
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
The few times I got the lease, iwconfig shows that I was connected but I wasn't able to ping google either.
I have also tried the pci=noacpi when loading xubuntu. I've followed a lot of guides already and it would be great if someone points me in the correct direction.
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