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More WiFi problems.

Asked by Ingestre

Hi,

I have recently installed Ubuntu on my old Packard Bell Easynote R1935, I have checked and it seems that the drivers are installed although I have someone suggest that the drivers maybe causing the problem in the first place. I think the reason that the wifi isn't working is that the wireless card was disabled before I installed ubuntu. The wireless could be toggled on or off by pressing FN & F1 when it was running XP, however with ubuntu it doesn't seem to do anything. I used the 'sudo lshw -C network' from the terminal and it lists the wireless interface as being DISABLED, under configuration is says 'driver=rt61pci' which seems correct.

Is there a way of forcing the wireless card to turn on without reinstalling windows?

Thanks in advance

Nick

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Ingestre (creemthebunny) said : 		#1

nick@Frank-Scrapper:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for nick:
  *-network:0 DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
       vendor: RaLink
       physical id: 6
       bus info: pci@0000:00:06.0
       logical name: wmaster0
       version: 00
       serial: 00:10:60:67:2b:f1
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci latency=64 module=rt61pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
  *-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: VT6102 [Rhine-II]
       vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
       physical id: 12
       bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 74
       serial: 00:40:d0:95:c9:82
       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=via-rhine driverversion=1.4.3 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.7 latency=128 link=yes maxlatency=8 mingnt=3 module=via_rhine multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: pan0
       serial: 62:89:71:9c:d0:ef
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes
nick@Frank-Scrapper:~$

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LinuxUbuntugeek (clarke121) said : 		#2

Here is the Official Ubuntu Wireless Documentation

Cards Supported
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported

Troubleshooting/Howto/General
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo

In the event of your Wifi card being unsupported you can use Ndiswrapper Here is the Official Ubuntu Ndiswrapper Documentation
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper

LUg.

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