mailman1175
December 30th, 2009, 06:18 PM
It's me again, Margaret… :)
I decided to try to build my own Ubuntu from a minimal install. Since I have a working Karmic (UNR) install on another partition on my machine (an Acer Aspire One 110L), I figured a minimal Karmic image was the best place to start.
The netbook remix installation went by without a hitch: wireless was working out of the box. I was hopeful (though probably as much out of ignorance about the process as any anything) that the minimal install would recognize and configure my wireless hardware correctly. It does recognize the wireless hardware. But it's not working.
$ sudo lshw -C network
[snip]
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 01
serial: 00:22:69:21:09:a3
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilites: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yet driver=ath5k latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
resources: irq:18 memory:35200000- 3520ffff
$
This shows my wireless card is at least being recognized. This is all exactly the same output that I get in the working KarmicUNR install.
Getting wifi going on this machine has been a pain in the keister with every installation I've done, with the notable exception of the Karmic UNR install. I had working wireless on a Hardy install, using madwifi drivers. I couldn't get madwifi to work for me in the brief attempt I made with Crunchbang 9.04. All the troubleshooting threads I've poked through on this forum, and the couple of Ubuntu wiki pages on network troubleshooting… well, I leave them not knowing much more than I did before I started searching. They're either too specific (in the case of the threads here) or too general/outdated (in the case of the wiki pages).
So, if y'all can help me get wireless up and running, I'd appreciate it. I'd love to learn a bit more about how the networking pieces work, and how to troubleshoot when they're not.
TIA
Edited to add: I've installed wicd, and I've run wicd-client…
$ wicd-client
Importing pynotify failed, notifications disabled.
Has notifications support False
Loading…
Connecting to daemon…
Connected.
Done loading.
And that's it. No GUI, but that may be because there's something I've yet to install. I don't have a task bar yet in Openbox, so I don't have any graphical indication for what it's doing.
I decided to try to build my own Ubuntu from a minimal install. Since I have a working Karmic (UNR) install on another partition on my machine (an Acer Aspire One 110L), I figured a minimal Karmic image was the best place to start.
The netbook remix installation went by without a hitch: wireless was working out of the box. I was hopeful (though probably as much out of ignorance about the process as any anything) that the minimal install would recognize and configure my wireless hardware correctly. It does recognize the wireless hardware. But it's not working.
$ sudo lshw -C network
[snip]
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 01
serial: 00:22:69:21:09:a3
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilites: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yet driver=ath5k latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
resources: irq:18 memory:35200000- 3520ffff
$
This shows my wireless card is at least being recognized. This is all exactly the same output that I get in the working KarmicUNR install.
Getting wifi going on this machine has been a pain in the keister with every installation I've done, with the notable exception of the Karmic UNR install. I had working wireless on a Hardy install, using madwifi drivers. I couldn't get madwifi to work for me in the brief attempt I made with Crunchbang 9.04. All the troubleshooting threads I've poked through on this forum, and the couple of Ubuntu wiki pages on network troubleshooting… well, I leave them not knowing much more than I did before I started searching. They're either too specific (in the case of the threads here) or too general/outdated (in the case of the wiki pages).
So, if y'all can help me get wireless up and running, I'd appreciate it. I'd love to learn a bit more about how the networking pieces work, and how to troubleshoot when they're not.
TIA
Edited to add: I've installed wicd, and I've run wicd-client…
$ wicd-client
Importing pynotify failed, notifications disabled.
Has notifications support False
Loading…
Connecting to daemon…
Connected.
Done loading.
And that's it. No GUI, but that may be because there's something I've yet to install. I don't have a task bar yet in Openbox, so I don't have any graphical indication for what it's doing.