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I guess there is no one with a solution to this, so what I did to save my files was used the Ubuntu live cd to start terminal and mount the root.disk file in my c:/ubuntu/disks folder and retrieved...

I upgraded to Natty from Maverick last month and have been happily going along without incident. However after running update manager this evening, I now have no desktop running. I have Ubuuntu...

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I have a question that has kind of confused me. There are 2 people I work with whom I am trying to get converted from M$ to linux. Both appear really eager to give it a try. However both have told me...

I never really did anything Right after I installed Ubuntu I connected my ethernet card. awith the wored connection active now I went to system-->administration-->additional drivers My computer then...

If that's the case, I would suggest calling your ISP to see what settings are required for the router in order to connect to the internet such as is dchp automatic, is it ppoe, etc...... Depending on...

Without knowing the manufacturer and model of your wireless card it's kind of hard to do much. If you can find that out, it would be the first step. post the results of
sudo lshw -C network
...

Try to edit your smb.conf file.

sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
scroll to ######Authentication####### go to the line where it has security=user and put # at the very beginning of that line. then...

One thing I can see from here is you don't have any guest access to your /Home/ben/downloads folder,
It has only Ben as a valid user. As far as I know you have to allow guests in order to share a...

I hope you didn't install samba 4. Its way too complicated. do u have a samba gui installed? what's the output of
testparm -s

check the output of
sudo ufw status
if it says ufw enabled then try
sudo ufw disable and then try to access your shares again

Everything doesn't always get uninstalled when u reinstall something different. For example the b43 driver and the sta driver are not dependant on one another, therefore installing one will not...

There should have only been for the f the first 2 anyhow, but the fact that you say there wasn't tells me that not only is your card missing from the install, but the driver is not there either....

Are you using samba? is ufw enabled? too many places to start. gonna hafta be a little more specific

Can you post the output of
lsmod | grep 'wl' and
lspci -nn | grep 'Broadcom' if no broadcom is present on second command try
sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop then see if the wireless card enables if...

wireless is not installed, but from the looks of it u can connect via your wired connection right? It should have scanned automatically when u opened the additional drivers utility under...

if you are connected to internet either system-->administration-->additional drivers. ONLY install the sta driver DO NOT use b43. or from terminal
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

try this
ls /var/lib/dkms/bcmwlif it shows anything sort of like bcmwl -v 5....... u can use these 2 codes to install the sta driver

sudo dkms build -m bcmwl -v 5........+bdcom
sudo dkms...

What is the output of
sudo lshw -C network
and
ifconfig and
iwconfig

your whole network setup looks to me like a mess. First I have never seen a network:0 network:1 and so on like that. It is usually just *-network .Do you have a total of 3 network adapters in your...

go to system-->administration-->additional drivers with the wired connection plugged in run the scan and add the broadcom sta driver.

http://rdsathene.org/notes/fdisk_newfs_msdos.html here u go.

Thats why the rfkill output would be important. It can block both the switch and the driver from activating

Can you post the output of
rfkill list and
sudo lshw -C network

Scott using the tar file is not as simplle as decompressing the file. Generally once the tar file has been decompressed, whatever is in the file needs to be built. Decompressing the file should be as...