Help with using Ubuntu wirelessly

Hi,

Please first connect your network card to the wireless router using an ethernet cable (also known as a LAN cable).

In order to gather essential troubleshooting information about your wireless card, please follow this procedure:

Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->
Terminal"

Step 2: Run the following commands (copy-paste each line below to the Terminal then hit <enter> after each line)

sudo aptitude install hwinfo
hwinfo --netcard
sudo iwlist scanning
sudo lshw -C network
lspci -nn
lsusb
uname -a
dmesg | grep ound
dmesg | grep witch
iwconfig

Step 3: Please post results (copy/paste terminal output from each command) on this thread

Step 4: Please also specify the exact model and make of your PC (if known) on this thread

Keep in mind that one or more of the following 4 basic components need to be configured correctly so that wireless can work correctly in Linux:

Wireless configuration in the BIOS, hardware wireless switch setting, active wireless driver version, and firmware for the wireless chipset (stored as a file in Linux).

Regards,

Mark

This Should Solve your Problem:

Step 1

Natively the card is detected and installed by the system, but the WiFi doesn't work, we'll go on removing the current driver :

First, we'll check that the drivers is installed :

$>find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name "*acx*"

You should get :

$>find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name "*acx*"
/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/acx
/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx_pci.ko

Then, save them to /root or whatever you want.

$>sudo find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name "*acx*" -exec mv {} /root \;

And finally, make and update of the modules dépendencies :

$>depmod -a

End of the first step, go on with the new drivers installation.

Step 2

You have to download two things :

First one is to get the drivers, you can grab them here :

ftp://ftp.dlink.co.uk/wireless/dwl-g650+_rev_Bx/dwl-g650+_rev_bx_drv_v204.zip
( you can also use wget url of course )

Unpack them :

$>unzip dwl-g650+_rev_bx_drv_v204.zip

ok, then the second thing : we'll get ndiswrapper, it allows to install Windows Wifi Drivers under linux ! ;)

$>sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils

now, we just have to give ndiswrapper the right .inf file..

$>ndiswrapper -i /path/of/drivers/GPLUS.inf

and reboot !

I hope this will work for you :)

Hi S.Vikash Koushik,

Please do not send the same "solution" procedure to everyone who has a wireless driver issue. We have to assume that every user has a different configuration, including a different wireless chipset in their pc. It is likely that the wireless chipset in Travis' PC should NOT be using the acx_pci driver, GPLUS.inf. There are lots of different types of wireless chipsets and corresponding drivers.

So the first thing we need to do, is gather information about the wireless chip that Travis is using. Without that info, it is pointless to already send out a "solution procedure"

Regards,

Mark