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Asked by Lisa Yee

hello all...im kinda having trouble getting my at home network that routes with windows XP to work with ubuntu....Im currently using a liksys router and i have no idea where and how to begin....to be able to get a network up and running....??

help me....please and thanks

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Lisa Yee (xtwoface2005) said : 		#1

oh and i forgot to add that my wireless router is the WRT54GS

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#2

It's probably an issue with your wifi card in your laptop (assuming you are using a laptop). Can you provide info on the specs of the computer in question? For the wifi card, open a terminal (apps -accessories) and type

lspci | grep -i wireless

Paste the output here.

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Lisa Yee (xtwoface2005) said : 		#3

thanks for your respond....i have the sony model PCG-7Y2L Model number is the VGN-N365E
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-documents.pl?mdl=VGNN365E

after typing "lspci | grep -i wireless" I received the following response:

Lisa@juggernaut:`$ lspci | grep -i wireless
06:00.0 Wthernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Ar5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#4

Searching the ubuntu wiki for that chipset returns this page.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/AR5006EG

Looks like support may or may not yet exist (Dec 7th passed but no update to that page). You can try the given link though but it too looks a bit out of date.

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