11.10 network trouble: can't find wlan0

[rmallett]

I'm trying to install the drivers for my network card on 11.10. I successfully was able to get this to work on 11.04 using the instructions here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ight=rt2800pci

but in 11.10 at Step 5, when I try the command:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 down

I get the message:

wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Any help is appreciated, I'm not too experienced with Ubuntu.

Thanks

[cariboo]

Could you paste the output of:

sudo lshw -C network

in your next post

[grahammechanical]

You were mixing two commands, weren't you?

sudo iwconfig

and

sudo ifdown wlan0

Which is followed by

sudo ifup wlan0

To re-activate the wireless adapter. I am just pointing this out so that others do not make this mistake. This is why some on this forum recommend the copy and paste method of putting commands into a terminal when following a guide. It avoids confusion due to typing errors. They do happen.

Regards.