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Cant detect wireless network or install drivers

Asked by ChrisGreenwood

Ive tried connecting to my wireless network but it cant detect anything. I have Ubuntu 8.10 and I can connect to the internet directly through my router (with a cable). Ive tried a lot of things people suggest on the discussion boards. This is what i've done most reciently which is usually how it goes:
 1 Download ndiswrapper
 2 make distclean
 3 make
 4 make install

then i get this: make[2]: *** [_module_/home/chris/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.48/driver] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chris/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.48/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2

By the way, I have a laptop with a Realtek 8185 a/b/g wireless adapter.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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NM Systems (nmsystems) said : 		#1

Unfortunately, I've seen this problem before, and it has many different answers. The most common is forgetting to run your 'make' commands as root. Just make your steps:

sudo make distclean
sudo make
sudo make install

Another scenario is having to run ./configure before your make command.
Yet another scenario is that you have the wrong driver, or even just the wrong driver version.

There are many more answers, but I hope these very simple possibilities may be of some use to you.

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ChrisGreenwood (greenw40) said : 		#2

It needed to update a few things before I did all this, that gave me a good install. Thanks anyway.

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sanijabo (sanijabo) said : 		#3

I am a new user of ubuntu, using 8.04, pls i need help on how to connect my wireless network. after installation, it did'nt detect my wireless card. Kindly help me out.
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