USB wireless networking setup

[its.ray]

:confused:
Hi,
I have installed Ubuntu 8.4 Hardy Heron and I cannot configure my wireless network usb dongle. It just does not seem to recognise it. My provider is ViginMedia (UK)
Could someone guide me through it please?
I used to run Vista Ultimate but I got sick of the constant upgrades and patches that hogged rescources. Bye Bye Bill Gates's crowd, you are a bunch of tossers!
Ray

[livestockPimp]

To get the wireless dongle working you need to know what type it is, it also depends on what encryption you are using wpa/wep/ect.

Open a terminal window and type "lspci" and paste the output here and also "lsusb"

[lemmy999]

I assume that you are talking about a mobile broadband dongle? If so try searching on here for network-manager 0.7. Its been designed to take this situation into account!

Check out this post, it may help
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=948977&highlight=network-manager

[DrMelon]

Or if you want more control over your network, how about trying wicd?

You can get wicd by typing this in a terminal window:

sudo apt-get install wicd