Wireless connectivity for Ubuntu 10.04

[rohit3051]

Hi experts,


I am having trouble connecting to internet using wifi from ubuntu 10.04(I need this version to install a software that runs only on this version). I have browsed through a lot of forums to solve my internet issue and each one has shown a different procedure. So I decided to post it here to get a step by step procedure to get wifi connectivity. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 using wubi, and from my research I could guess that all my drivers are not installed properly. I used ndiswrapper to install windows driver and still it does not work.

I am stuck with this problem for the past 3 days and it worries me as I am delaying my project.

I would be glad if someone could point me to a step by step guide explaining what is being done at each step so that I can have a clear idea.



Wireless card: Intel centrino wireless N 2200

Below are some outputs to the commands asked in a previous forum I thought would be helpful.

tiger@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:9e:01:04:60:cc
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:27 Base address:0x8000


lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:76 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:76 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5840 (5.8 KB) TX bytes:5840 (5.8 KB)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
tiger@ubuntu:~$ mtr -nrc2 8.8.8.8
HOST: ubuntu Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
tiger@ubuntu:~$
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
tiger@ubuntu:~$ host www.google.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
tiger@ubuntu:~$ mtr -nrc2 8.8.8.8
HOST: ubuntu Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
tiger@ubuntu:~$ host www.google.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
tiger@ubuntu:~$ host www.google.com 8.8.8.8
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

TIA



Questions:

1.Does installing Ubuntu through wubi have any drawbacks?
2. What is the procedure to setup wifi after installing windows driver?
3. there is no wlan0 in my ifconfig. What is wlan0 ?

[chait]

Hi rohit3051,
wlan refers to wireless device on your system.
can u post the output of the following command on ur system?
ifconfig wlan0

cheers

[rohit3051]

Hi chait,

As I said I do not have wlan0.

#ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: error fetching interfaces information: Device not found.

Can you suggest what steps do I need to follow from here.
TIA

[mörgæs]

Windows, Wubi, old Ubuntu, Ndiswrapper: My advice is to avoid all of them if possible.

Which applications work only in 10.04?

Have you considered a dual boot with Buntu 12.10? Your time might be better spent by focusing on getting the applications to run in a recent Buntu.

[rohit3051]

I only have the problem with connecting wifi in Ubuntu 10.04.
No, I have not tried other versions of Buntu
I will try the latest version if all others fail. Now my priority is to get 10.04 working as it is a must for my project.

Thanks.