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    help with wireless

    Im new to ubuntu and am having problems connecting to wireless just keeps asking for my password. Ive done many searches on the web and cant get any solutions can anyone help?

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    Re: help with wireless

    Welcome.

    We can try. Please open a terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal) and paste in these two commands:

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    sudo lshw -C network
    iwconfig
    ... and copy/paste the output back here, thanks, between code tags (easiest to mark out the output code, hit the 'quote' icon then replace where it says [quote] with [code] at beginning and end)..

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    Re: help with wireless

    should i be connected to my router by wire or no?

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    Re: help with wireless

    *-network
    description: Wireless interface
    product: Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150
    vendor: Intel Corporation
    physical id: 0
    bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
    logical name: wlan0
    version: 67
    serial: 40:25:c2:8b:0f:2c
    width: 64 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
    configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.2.0-31-generic firmware=41.28.5.1 build 33926 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
    resources: irq:51 memory:de800000-de801fff
    *-network
    description: Ethernet interface
    product: AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
    physical id: 0
    bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
    logical name: eth0
    version: c0
    serial: 54:04:a6:46:5d:20
    capacity: 1Gbit/s
    width: 64 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
    configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.1.0-NAPI firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
    resources: irq:54 memory:dd400000-dd43ffff ioport:a000(size=128)

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    Re: help with wireless

    lo no wireless extensions.

    wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSIDff/any
    Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=15 dBm
    Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
    Power Managementn

    eth0 no wireless extensions.

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    Re: help with wireless

    Maybe I need an upgraded kernel? Not sure what's going on

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    Re: help with wireless

    Follow this thread from post #5, ignoring references to Broadcom card. Should fix:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...light=acer-wmi

    The gist is, run this:

    Code:
    sudo rmmod -f acer-wmi
    Restart and see if you get anything. If it works, run these three commands to make it persistent:

    Code:
    sudo su
    echo "blacklist acer-wmi" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
    exit
    If not, start digging here:

    http://au.yhs4.search.yahoo.com/yhs/...avista&fr2=sfp

    ... as you have this wireless card: Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150

    Known to be tricky but what release are you using? Looks like 12.04 and you are ready to go by the output of 'sudo lshw -C network' reporting this:
    Code:
    broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.2.0-31-generic firmware=41.28.5.1
    PS: Fix in link is for 11.04 but shouldn't make any diff. Incidentally, what is machine and model?
    Last edited by Bucky Ball; October 2nd, 2012 at 03:55 PM.

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    Re: help with wireless

    I'm using most recent I believe. I used the download from windows launcher 12.04.1 I believe. Ill give it a try and let u know. Asus u56e laptop
    Last edited by bjballar41; October 2nd, 2012 at 04:24 PM.

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    Re: help with wireless

    Will this cause problems on the windows side I forgot to say I am dual booted

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