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Cannot connect wireless, Lenovo Ideapad Y650, Ubuntu 9.04

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I have a Lenovo Ideapad Y650 and am running Ubuntu 9.04. I've set up ethernet connections fine, but I can't connect wireless. It tells me my wireless connection is disabled. I'm not quite sure what to do to make things work, I can't tell if it is detecting a connection or not. What should I look into? I can find more information, I'm not really sure what's needed at the moment.

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Best Bryan Basil (bryanlbasil) said : 		#1

Hello, bingi. :-)

Try these commands to see if we can, at least, get you up and running temporarily. :-)

"sudo rmmod ssb"
"sudo modprobe wl"

If you have a "Wireless" light on the front of your machine, it should turn on, change the proper color, etc. if this command helps at all. It will take up to five minutes, however, before you can connect to any networks.

It should work, but I'm not sure how this works after rebooting, though, so you might have to manually configure it to start at boot.

You might navigate to /etc/crontab, and enter

"@reboot root <sudo rmmod ssb>"
"@reboot root <sudo modprobe wl". :-)

Also, if you want to run this as a regular user, replace root with your username.

Also, you can add "sudo rmmod ssb" and "sudo modprobe wl" to the end of /etc/init.d/rc.local.

You do each of these with "gksudo gedit /etc/crontab" and "gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/rc.local", respectively. :-) Also, if you're having some permissions issues, run "sudo chmod o+wx /etc/crontab" or "sudo chmod o+wx /etc/init.d/rc.local".

I hope I've been of some help, and that I've solved your question. :-)

Keep me posted.

Best to you, and good luck!

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bingie (cbingiel) said : 		#2

Thanks, this helped! It was able to detect the connections now. I'm not sure if this is a boot issue or not, but if so I'll make the changes.

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Bryan Basil (bryanlbasil) said : 		#3

No problem. :-) I'm glad I could be of help.

Keep me posted, or post another question, if you have any more problems.

Best to you, bingie!