setting up my wifi

[kalju24]

i just joined ubuntu with my hp compaq nx 6110 and i wanted to join wifi but i dont know how it was easy on windows but not here can somebody help me and by the way i have broadcoam or something card i need step by step info
thx for the info

[hal10000]

Hi,
the first you shoul do is to give some info about your card. You can do this by opening a terminal window ( in gnome i guess it can be found in the menu Applications--->Terminal window or something similar, don't use gnome, so i cant't tell you the exact menu-position).
Then type in the following commands and post their output here (you can mark the output with your mouse and paste it with the middle mouse button)

1.

iwconfig

2.

cat /etc/network/interfaces

3.

ifconfig

4.
If your wireless card is built-in or a pci-card then

lspci

lspci -n

or, if your wireless device is an usb stick:

lsusb

After you have posted the output we can go further.

[kalju24]

administrator@M44LAP195:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"JALAX"
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2346 B
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


administrator@M44LAP195:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


iface wlan0 inet static
address 194.168.0.195
netmask 255.255.0.0
gateway 194.168.0.36
wireless-key **********
wireless-essid JALAX











iface eth0 inet static
address 194.168.0.195
netmask 255.255.0.0
gateway 194.168.0.79







auto eth0

auto wlan0

administrator@M44LAP195:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:38:15:d0:c0
inet addr:194.168.0.195 Bcast:194.168.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:38ff:fe15:d0c0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:758 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:307 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:360665 (352.2 KB) TX bytes:36375 (35.5 KB)
Interrupt:22

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:74427 (72.6 KB) TX bytes:74427 (72.6 KB)

administrator@M44LAP195:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
02:06.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
02:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)

administrator@M44LAP195:~$ lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 8086:2590 (rev 03)
00:02.0 0300: 8086:2592 (rev 03)
00:02.1 0380: 8086:2792 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2658 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2659 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:265a (rev 03)
00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:265b (rev 03)
00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:265c (rev 03)
00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev d3)
00:1e.2 0401: 8086:266e (rev 03)
00:1e.3 0703: 8086:266d (rev 03)
00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2641 (rev 03)
00:1f.1 0101: 8086:266f (rev 03)
00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:266a (rev 03)
02:04.0 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 03)
02:06.0 0607: 104c:8031
02:06.2 0c00: 104c:8032
02:0e.0 0200: 14e4:170c (rev 02)





THAT was what i got i diidnt to usb scan because i dont have a usb wificard

[hal10000]

Your card is a Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03).

First of all, because you configured your network-devices manually (your wireless and ethernet card) are you sure, you have setup your ip-addresses correctly?

I ask this, because in almost every case you need a private ip-address-range to get your network working and these private addresses must start with either 192.168.X.X or with 10.X.X.X, but your ip- addresses (for ethernet-card and wireless) starts with 194.168.X.X; this is not a private ip-address.

To prevend me from confusing me more and more you should tell me something more about the way you are connected through your network.

Does your ethernet-connection work? (try ping 194.168.0.79 and ping www.google.com (or another address in the internet like ping www.nasa.gov)

It seems as if you are connected via two routers (one wired and one wireless) , is that right?

The driver for your wireless network-card should be a file called bcm43xx.ko
You can test if it is already loaded with the following command:

lsmod | grep bcm

If you get an answer, then it is loaded (i suppose this is the case).
If not then you can manually load it with sudo modprobe bcm43xx (without the .ko suffix).

But before we go on configuring the wireless card we have to be sure about your general network (router, Accesspoint, ip-addresses etc.)

[kalju24]

yes my ip is right im in my office everyone has their own ip and thats mine i used the same ones when i used windows

[kalju24]

administrator@M44LAP195:~$ sudo modprobe bcm43xx
[sudo] password for administrator:
administrator@M44LAP195:~$ sudo modprobe bcm43xx

and i tried it so also
root@M44LAP195:/home/administrator# sudo modprobe bcm43xx
root@M44LAP195:/home/administrator#

it dosent do nothing

and bytheway i have ubuntu 8.04 hardy