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[Gilha]

Hi,

I have an old Asus Eee pc which I now use only to write a few programms for college, since the computer is so old and I barely use Windows I decided to install Ubuntu 10.04 Lts and to erase the Windows partition (the Ubuntu installer gave me that option, which I selected). It all went great untill the time I wanted to connnect to the Internet. The pc recognizes the wireless connections in range and even asks me for the password, I type it in and wait but it just won't connect! After a few minutes it asks to input the password again and the same thing happens, and this over and over again.
Sorry for the bad English and I hope you guys can help me. Thank you.

Regards,

Gilha

[wildmanne39]

Hi, copy and paste this command in the terminal (ctrl+alt+t) please:

wget -N -t 5 -T 10 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57264241/wireless_script && chmod +x wireless_script && ./wireless_script

It will download a script and create a text file in your home folder with wireless information so we can see the condition of your wireless at this time and the Mac address, WPA key and WEP key are removed for your security, then reply back and attach the netinfo.txt file.
Thanks

[Gilha]

I'm sorry but i cannot run that in the terminal of my Ubuntu pc because I've got no Internet connection on that computer. I've tried to run that in the Windows terminal, from where i'm working right now, but it doesn't work. what can I do for you to help me?
Thank you very much

[NikTh]

I'm sorry but i cannot run that in the terminal of my Ubuntu pc because I've got no Internet connection on that computer. I've tried to run that in the Windows terminal, from where i'm working right now, but it doesn't work. what can I do for you to help me?

Then you must "play" with transfer files from one pc to other , through Usb-stick.

Goto this page http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57264241/wireless_script

The script is above. Click in your browser File > Save Page as and save it inside to Usb-Stick.
Transfer the file to your /home folder inside Ubuntu and the open a terminal and do

sudo chown username:username wireless_script
sudo chmod a+x wireless_script 
./wireless_script

Where username , replace it with your actual username in Ubuntu.
Then transfer again the netinfo.txt file , that will be created, into working PC , and attach the file here.

Thanks

[kbrodenhau]

I've noticed with the installations that wireless connectivity during installation fails (*buntu and Debian)... So, just ignore and continue the installation.

During installation, seems to only like WEP (and not WPA).

After install and reboot and login, easily connect to the network from the network icon and perform any upgrades as well as adding the language support...

I also suggest either Lubuntu (or maybe Xubuntu) if you have a really old machine... Ubuntu using Unity / Compiz might be too slugish.

[Gilha]

I tried to run the code on #4, but the terminal has the following output on the first command: "cannot access 'wireless_script': No such file or directory"

[wildmanne39]

Hi, please run these commands then copy the results to a flash drive and use a computer with internet to post them.

cat /etc/lsb-release; uname -a
lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
lsusb
iwconfig
rfkill list all
lsmod

Thanks

[Gilha]

hi sry I took so long to reply, was away from home for a few days.

here are the results of the code u asked me to run on my terminal:
im sending the code in a txt file in an attachment.

thanks

[NikTh]

From the info you provided and after a search to Web, I found that this is a bug.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...3?comments=all

The workaround is to install the wireless-backport-modules , although I guess that if you install a newer kernel , maybe this will solve your problem.

If you have internet through Ethernet , try to full update your system

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

and if a newer kernel installed , boot from there and test again.

If not, then try to install wireless - backport -modules . You can find them from synaptic package manager if you write to search box wireless backport .

In any case wait for Wild Man's response.. before you proceed with any of my suggestions.

Thanks

[Gilha]

Thank you for your help NikTh!