medion 95400 wireless not working.. linux noob

[nostradamus2000]

Hi, I finally installed ubuntu 8.10 on my Medion MD95400 laptop, from Aldi, but the wireless doesn't work. I have found out that i have got a Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG card. i already been able to get the laptop to detect the card, yet when i run iwconfig the following appears.

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
RTS thr=1600 B Fragment thr=2304 B
Power Managementff
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

pan0 no wireless extensions.


normally in windows i have to push a hotkey to turn wlan on yet in ubuntu this doens't work.

if annyone got a solution fore this bigg thx in advance.

[charliebrownau]

I have the ALDI/Medion 97160 and have the same issue with Ubuntu 804

I will be trying Debian 5 soon and seeing if it supports the
Azurewave rt2860 802.11n Wireless LAN Card

[Svenare]

The medion wireless switch works differently to most other laptop,
you need software that only works in windows to turn it on and off.
I've been looking for a solution for years....and now i have it.

The about a week ago I found something in bios.
under advanced, there was an option "wireless" which was set as "disabled",
I simple changed it to the other option "last state" and bam! I can use wireless in Ubuntu

hope this helps