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    only my home wireless doesn't work..?

    Okay! so I used the windows installer to dual boot ubuntu on my windows 7 notebook. everything works fine, but i've had wireless issues from the start. My home wireless network says it's connected, but I don't have access to the internet. I tried my neighbors wifi and my school's wifi and they work just fine. I'm a complete and total noob to linux so be gentle! thanks for the help.

    sorry i know there are a ton of wireless issue threads but i've been searching for hours and i haven't found anything really similar to my problem :/

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    Re: only my home wireless doesn't work..?

    Could be you're not using the correct security settings for your wifi at home? e.g. you need to use WPA2-PSK and you're trying to use WPA
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    Re: only my home wireless doesn't work..?

    Nope that part looks okay! i've tried changing up some of the settings and there's no difference

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    Re: only my home wireless doesn't work..?

    Quote Originally Posted by mrjustusthomas View Post
    Nope that part looks okay! i've tried changing up some of the settings and there's no difference
    Sorry to hear that! I don't have that much experience with Wifi troubleshooting on Ubuntu but I thought I'd make an attempt at tier 1 support lol

    If you load a live cd does the wifi behave differently?
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    Re: only my home wireless doesn't work..?

    I don't have a live CD and I don't have any CD's to install with.

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    Re: only my home wireless doesn't work..?

    Quote Originally Posted by mrjustusthomas View Post
    I don't have a live CD and I don't have any CD's to install with.
    oh sorry... are the problems just related to ubuntu or does the wifi have issues in windows as well?
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    Re: only my home wireless doesn't work..?

    everything is fine in windows, and the only issue i have in ubuntu is with my own home network. every other network i have tried works. so it's nothing with my router (windows and my phone connect fine), and it's not my laptop hardware because it connects to every other network. the only difference i've seen is all of the networks that have worked haven't had a password, but my home network does

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    Re: only my home wireless doesn't work..?

    Quote Originally Posted by mrjustusthomas View Post
    everything is fine in windows, and the only issue i have in ubuntu is with my own home network. every other network i have tried works. so it's nothing with my router (windows and my phone connect fine), and it's not my laptop hardware because it connects to every other network. the only difference i've seen is all of the networks that have worked haven't had a password, but my home network does
    oh that is interesting lemme do some digging and see if I can find anything worth trying. What version of Ubuntu are you running and laptop specs etc
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    Re: only my home wireless doesn't work..?

    additionally this looks like it may be helpful

    Ubuntu Wireless Troubleshooting
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    Re: only my home wireless doesn't work..?

    thanks so much! i'm running 12.10 on an asus x53e notebook, windows 7,4 gigs of ram, 2.1 GHz processor...

    p.s. i'm using ubuntu right now with my neighbors wifi and everything seems to be working normally

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