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Problem with loading ubuntu

Asked by Jonathan New Haven

on my computer i have windows XP and ubuntu installed, for some reason I had to change my mother board, that's why I reinstall my windows which was in drive c:. I didn't format drive e: which is my ubuntu drive, after installation I setup the GRUB with ubuntu cd to be able to have both operating system agin. but the problem is when I boot the system with ubuntu it will not boot because YP server will fail, NIS will fail , and I think file system fail also, but in windows I do not have any problem. most of my work is in ubuntu and I need them, please let me know if I can do enything execpt reinstalling ubuntu.

thanks.

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Paolo Sammicheli (xdatap1) said : 		#1

hi

tell us the output of:

$ lspci
$ ifconfig
$ iwconfig

and more, what kind of wireless card you have? It's built in, an usb or pcmcia card?

Bye

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Jonathan New Haven (jonathan-dranoff) said : 		#2

Sorry, but I have to use a different computer for this:

lspci shows a number of devices, but not the wireless controller

ifconfig shows two devices:
eth0 link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:6B:E3:98:B1
lo link encap:Local Loopback
         inet addr: 127.0.0.1 mask 255.0.0.0

iwconfig shows no wireless extensions for the following: lo, eth0, wlan0, irda0, sit0

The card is internal. Is there any way to force Ubuntu to scan for my wireless controller?

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williamts99 (williamts99) said : 		#3

Is there a hardware disable switch, and if so, what is the position of this switch?

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jz (jz+) said : 		#4

Was this an ipw3945 based wireless device? The output of dmesg might also be helpful if you could post it...

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cmnorton (octopusgrabbus) said : 		#5

My T61p has a built-in wireless card and was working. I hooked it up to a wired connection, and now the wireless information is missing from System -> Administration -> Network

This is what is in /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

I've tried restarting the network without the eth0 plugged in.

Here's some output:

lspci | grep Wireless
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)
~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

What do I need to do to restore wireless?

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