HP 1020 Netbook + Ubuntu 10.4 wireless

**fugazi32** · May 2nd, 2010

Hi, I have just installed Ubuntu 10.4 on a friend's mini netbook, but it won't display any wireless connection. iwconfig wlan0 gives me:

Code:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

Any ideas anyone?

Update: just read this here - http://ubuntuguru.wordpress.com/2009...-for-netbooks/:

There’s been some initial frustration with getting Ubuntu Netbook Remix properly running with wireless and sound. NOTE: You must boot the windows partition and turn on the wireless first. I feel bad for those eager pioneers who just unboxed and reformatted for Ubuntu-how frustrating that must have been to learn. I started by doing a dd image of the drive first to backup, which took about 2 hours. Wireless did not work on Ubuntu 8.1 desktop, nor on 9.10 without installing backports. I instead went for installing the daily build of 9.10 Karmic Koala Netbook Remix, and wireless worked upon booting.

Oh dear...I formatted the hard disk. Does this mean without Windows 7 I can't get the wireless to work?

**fugazi32** · May 3rd, 2010

Problem solved!

**spin498** · May 5th, 2010

So how did you get it to work? I'm trying on an older IBM thinkpad. I don't get the wireless in windows part, I have windows XP and wireless works but if I boot into Ubuntu the wireless card shuts off.