Wireless Connection Disabled

I have the same chipset on my WLAN-card. All I had to do was to click on the Broadcom firmware in Restricted Manager and everything worked. Since I knew the encryption, WPA, typing in the password made internet available.

So you have loaded the firmware and you can see your home network but you can't connect? System-->Administration-->Network. Is your wireless in roaming mode?

I double-checked the network and I am in wireless roaming mode (checked making the boxes below un-editable). Still when I click on the connection icon (upper right hand corner of the desktop) and click it...it says "wireless networks" but no networks are listed underneath. I'm writing in windows XP now and the connection strength and wireless connection is excellent so for some reason my computer isn't finding the wireless network when in Ubuntu. I can't wait to get it set up and running so I can stop switching back and forth between operating systems and can just get help online through Ubuntu!
Thanks for the reply. Any other suggestions?

I don't know if it is necessary but here is some more information on my Network Adapter:
Broadcom 802.11g
I guess the driver information is useless because it is all windows information. If there is more info anyone else out there needs just let me know and I'll provide it.

So I'm running a Gateway 7510GX laptop (AMD Athlon 64) Processor 3700+
I noticed that in windows the laptop has a little lit-up wireless light on the keyboard. This can be toggled on and off via the function key and F2. I went in to Ubuntu to check if this light was on and, if it wasn't, if I could turn it on and thus allow the hardware to look for the wireless connection. In Ubuntu the light was not on and I couldn't get it to toggle on via the keyboard. So whatever is going on has to be between the Ubuntu software and the hardware in this laptop. Hopefully this is helpful info.

Just checking: in the restricted manager. Is the Broadcom Firmware installed? Is the checkbox checked? :)

When you check that, and HAVE INTERNET CONNECTION, Ubuntu will download what it needs for the WLAN-card and you will get wireless. But you need wired network to get the packages. Have you done this?

Thanks naufal, that solved my question.

I really appreciate everyones help! Hopefully this is the beginning of a great new experiment with a different OS! Thanks for your knowledge and experience!

Hello I am Juan

I have installed a few days ago a wired connexion to my laptop (Compaq Presario C700) with the command line pppoeconf. I am using Ubuntu 9.1. The wired connexion is just fine, but my computer does not detect any wireless network anymore. Any ideas on this?

This is what I get when I insert the command lshw:

 *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:1e:4c:9a:00:0d
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath5k latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
       resources: irq:16 memory:91300000-9130ffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 1
       bus info: pci@0000:02:01.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:1b:38:e7:85:44
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:16 ioport:1000(size=256) memory:91200000-912000ff

hi
I was using ubuntu 8.0 version some thing crashed my GNOME so i had to reinstall it using live CD i burnt one for ubuntu 9.1 version. I got my gnome back and everything is working fine except the wireless card i see the same as juan
my wireless card is Atheros AR 5001 when i searched over the internet i found this solution for wireless
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wireless-internet/155047-ubuntu-v9-1-wireless-problem.html
I havent tried it yet but it may help you juan try this and i ll let you know ASAP if the solution works .

Torben, You are the most wonderful person ever! Thank you. I was freaking out because my wireless was disabled. Fn F2 solved my problem. As soon as I read that, I realized I had accidentally pressed Fn F2 when I was trying to open the command window. Thank you Thank you Thank you!