Network

Asked by Lyn Edmenson

I've just installed the new Ubuntu and I am not able to get my wireless to work. I have set up the security details but have no connection. I have a Sony Vaio VGN A195EP with wireless G onboard. When I look in Hardware Drivers, it is empty and states "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system". I want to llok at my device drivers to check. How do I do this?
I also have a wireless N Vigor N61 USB adapter. It appears to have no drivers at all as the LED on the adapter is not lit up at any time.
Wired LAN is working but it is not picking up and computers on my LAN (in Windows Workgroup.

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naufal (musp-student) said :
#1

hello,
type in terminal:
ifconfig
lspci
please post the result here.
or you can try to enable roaming mode in network.
System-->Administration-->Network
hope this help.

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Tom Simpson (tom3920) said :
#2

Where do I type in ifconfig Ispci, I just added 8.04 first time with ubuntu & have tried to set up my wireless have linksys wusb54g I cannot find the device driver but i may be looking at it but not seeing

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
#3

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

ifconfig
lscpi

"lspci" command is the lower of "LSPCI"

Hopet this helps

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Lyn Edmenson (lynedson) said :
#4

Here are the 2 items you requested. I should point out that my wireless security uses WPA PSK.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:46:d8:cd:35
          inet addr:192.168.1.94 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:46ff:fed8:cd35/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:432 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:529 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:286334 (279.6 KB) TX bytes:71537 (69.8 KB)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0e:35:14:56:fe
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:1939 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1399 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:7 Memory:ff6fd000-ff6fdfff

eth1:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0e:35:14:56:fe
          inet addr:169.254.7.3 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          Interrupt:7 Memory:ff6fd000-ff6fdfff

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:2274 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2274 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:117726 (114.9 KB) TX bytes:117726 (114.9 KB)

qwerty@Linux-Laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M9+ 5C61 [Radeon Mobility 9200 (AGP)] (rev 01)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller
02:01.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCI7420/7620 Combo CardBus, 1394a-2000 OHCI and SD/MS-Pro Controller
02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)
02:04.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
02:04.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
02:04.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller (rev 83)

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Tom Simpson (tom3920) said :
#5

thank you for your help
Tom

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Lyn Edmenson (lynedson) said :
#6

So what is the result of all th eabove info I sent? I still have no wireless or Workgroup.

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naufal (musp-student) said :
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naufal (musp-student) said :
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Lyn Edmenson (lynedson) said :
#9

Neither of these links work for me. The top link appears to b eunrelated to the problem, but the bottom one seems to suggest this version of Ubuntu does not support WPA natively. The terminal syntax offered to fix th eproblem does not get past the first stage therefore I cannot fix the wireless. I still cannot see any LAN computers in Workgroup, even on wired Ethernet. I used to be able to do this OK on th elast version so why does it not work now?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
#10

Using the System->Administration->Network

click on "properties" button

Please temporary disable eth1 and try to use different modes on eth0

Hope this helps

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Lyn Edmenson (lynedson) said :
#11

Thanks for trying. I regret to say I'm going back to Windows. This version seems to have gone backwards from the previous one which worked better. It's just too much hassle which is one of the reasons people in general are reluctant to move to Linux. It needs to work easily out of the box which it doesn't so I'll try again next version..