With U6.06.--Online with 2200GB how?

Asked by Jan David

I am new. I can`t go online w. u6.06. I have asus M6000 with Intel PRO 2200GB
I am not a comp-whiz.
I don`t know where to look without looking for hours not really getting anywhere. Except for here where do I go best with my questions as they come up and how do I proceed to get the right answers and stay out of peoples hair that don`t want to spend time answering "boring " questions?

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Dean Sas (dsas) said :
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Good sources of help are the system help under system=>help=>system documentation (particularly the desktop guide), also http://help.ubuntu.com/community, the #ubuntu IRC channel, and the forums at http://ubuntuforums.org

Also feel free to ask questions here.

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Dean Sas (dsas) said :
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To find out about going online depends on how you're trying to go online, I'd suggest giving more details here or looking at http://help.ubuntu.com/community in the first instance.

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Jan David (jan-domaradzki) said :
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Thanks a lot for Info. I`ll spend some time looking around at the community and the forums. I did Forums yesterday, but I got lost somehow not really knowing how to aim to get the specific Info.
The IRC channel, what is that--and do I get there out of XP? I still can`t go online with Ubuntu 6.06?
I have a ASUS M6000 NEUH Notebook w Intel/Pro 2200BG wireless adapter, presently no security set up.
Again, thanks for answering, have a good day!

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Dean Sas (dsas) said :
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The IRC channel is a chatroom full of ubuntu users.

You can download a program called mIRC for windows then join the irc.freenode.org network, and then join the #ubuntu channel.

To get online some of the documents on http://help.ubuntu.com/community/WiFiDocs may help.

On the forums try signing up/registering (not sure of the terminology they use) and then pressing "New Thread" after clicking on this link http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=139

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Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson) said :
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"I have a ASUS M6000 NEUH Notebook w Intel/Pro 2200BG wireless adapter, presently no security set up."

Have a look at this page:
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fubuntuforums.org%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D185484&ei=48HrRKGYKpam-gG4xZlh&sig2=ROwL0qtUexdNbU1kCO7lKA

Basically, you should already have the requisite driver. You may, however, need to install the linux-restricted-modules-686 pacakge.

To connect to the network, you'll probably want to tinker with your /etc/network/interfaces file, especially when you enable WPA on the AP (you *are* planning on enabling WPA, right?).

You might also be able to do with with NetworkManager (sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome or knetworkmanager), but I don't use said tools myself.

Anyway, just for reference, here's my /etc/network/interfaces:

--
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

#auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
        wpa-conf /home/jon/.wpa/wpa_supplicant.conf
--

And the file /home/jon/.wpa/wpa_supplicant.conf, used by the wpa_supplicant (sudo apt-get install wpa_supplicant):

--
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=admin

ap_scan=1

# Home
network={
        ssid="my_network_ssid"
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        psk="*****************************"
}

# School
network={
        ssid="their_network_ssid"
        scan_ssid=1
        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
        eap=PEAP
        identity="my_username"
        password="********"
        phase1="peaplabel=0"
        phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
}

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