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Asked by Donald Duquet

I have two wifi cards one lynksys and one belkin. I used the lynksys on win and the belkin on linspire. neither connects on ubuntu 6.06. System->Administation->Networking recognizes each card and clicking on activate changes the status to active. What is the next step to connect to a hotspot. I connect in my public library and the county court house. They are both open/public hotspots. What is the next step I need to take to get Ubuntu6.06 laptop connected.

It would have been a good topic to be included in the Official Ubuntu Book I paid $30 for.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

You might want to have a look at the wifi troubleshooting guide:-

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiTroubleshooting

Also Network Manager is a great too for managing your wireless connections:-

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/NetworkManager

If you go through those guides, and come back here and update us with the results.

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Donald Duquet (dsduquet) said : 		#2

This is the tail -f /var/log/messages output

Dec 8 14:23:21 localhost pppd[7530]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 8 14:23:21 localhost pppd[7530]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Dec 8 14:23:21 localhost pppd[7553]: pppd 2.4.4b1 started by root, uid 0
Dec 8 14:23:21 localhost pppd[7553]: Device ttyS0 is locked by pid 7530
Dec 8 14:23:21 localhost pppd[7553]: Exit.
Dec 8 14:23:26 localhost pppd[7530]: PAP authentication succeeded
Dec 8 14:23:26 localhost pppd[7530]: local IP address 4.235.18.50
Dec 8 14:23:26 localhost pppd[7530]: remote IP address 209.247.22.199
Dec 8 14:23:26 localhost pppd[7530]: primary DNS address 209.244.0.3
Dec 8 14:23:26 localhost pppd[7530]: secondary DNS address 209.244.0.4
Dec 8 14:33:27 localhost dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found und er /com/redhat/dhcp/eth1 for sub-path eth1.dbus.get.reason
sudo iwconfig

This is iwconfig output

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
          Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
          RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          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

sit0 no wireless extensions.

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williamts99 (williamts99) said : 		#3

What is the output of

lspci
and
lsusb

With each card connected.

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williamts99 (williamts99) said : 		#4

What is the output of

lspci
and
lsusb

With each card connected.

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