Since your card is displaying wireless networks that are available then that means that it is at least scanning for networks. If you go system>administration>network unlock it and then change your...
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Since your card is displaying wireless networks that are available then that means that it is at least scanning for networks. If you go system>administration>network unlock it and then change your...
I have a Lenovo R61e Thinkpad, nearly everything worked. The only issue that I have since resolved was that it did not recognize my wireless. I went through several hoops to get it to work, specifics...
I would just try reinstalling firefox 3 then, if its crashing when you try to run flash videos it may have been because the plug-in was not properly installed, or else you may have been missing one....
I know that on my laptop when I leave my wireless hardware switch on when I shut my laptop off then restart with that switch still on it will not switch to wireless no matter how many times I flip...
Personally I like VLC player for movies and Amarok for music.
Please don't give up, stick with it...trust me its worth it from the volumes of information you learn. I have a Lenovo R61e Thinkpad that has the worst chipset imaginable to get to connect to...
Well, this might be a different take on things, you said you were new to linux, ubuntu specifically. Like you I am rather new to linux and ubuntu so I used wubi to install ubuntu inside of windows...
Ok so here is my comprehensive guide to getting wireless to work on an R61e Thinkpad. Firstly, I would like to thank my mentors dmizer and pytheas22 otherwise this guide would not have been written....
I'm conducting an experiment...will I be able to get on the wireless if I leave the hardware switch on and tell it to reboot? That and the extra module of ndis wrapper seems to be the issue...
and...
When I run sudo iwlist scan
melissafrench@melissafrench-laptop:~$ sudo iwlist scan
[sudo] password for melissafrench:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface...
ok so i got rid of the extra ndiswrapper module and now it all seems fine except I can't seem to connect to my network. I checked my router and I have a 64bit hex wepkey. All it does is seem to sit...
Yeah, I know it shouldn't have and now all that I can use for interfaces according to network monitor is "wlan0:avahi" "eth0:avahi" and "lo" all of which have 169.XXXX.XXXX.XXXX IP addresses when all...
dmitzer after I ran your command and rebooted I tried to connect to the wireless the same way I just did and it timed out and I tried again and then I tried one more time then I clicked cancel and it...
yeah, something just broke when I ran my network monitor disappeared from by the clock after I tried to connect to my wireless and it timed out. Now I can't get the wireless or the wired connection...
ok, so how do we make ndiswrapper load the driver at startup? since it doesn't do that yet.
It Worked!! to enable roaming and then select wireless networks from that and put in the name and the wepkey. I will look back through the thread and outline what we had to do to make it work.
Yeah, I don't exactly know HEX at all if you could give me an example that would be great...the key is 10 digits long, so how would I enter that in hex
Ok, so I go into system>administration>network then I choose my wireless connection with my ethernet cable unplugged and my hardware switch in the on or off position I select Wireless connection and...
hmm, I can't configure it in network tools...i get an error that says that "the interface does not exist check that it is correctly typed and that it is correctly supported by your system"
OOO I have a wireless connection listed in my network settings...but I'm having trouble connecting. It is a WEP connection.
ooo I was just looking in my device manager and now i see that an ethernet controller preciously marked as networking interface is now marked as WLAN interface :D if that means anything.
melissafrench@melissafrench-laptop:~$ sudo modprobe -v ndiswrapper
[sudo] password for melissafrench:
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/ubuntu/misc/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko ...
neither of those commands yield anything...not even an error. naturally my wireless still doesn't work. lol
Here is the exact url, but there were some other options that I could choose from as well listed here I chose the one that fit my system best R61e thinkpad with a b/g wireless LAN mini PCI adapter, I...
here's the output of lshw -C network
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
vendor: Atheros...