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gnome-nettool package

No wireless w/Ubuntu 9.04 on a HP Notebook

Asked by AVB

I have an HP notebook (dv6700, 62bit) with an atheros AR242x wifi card. I recently switched from vista to ubuntu and found that I lost my wireless. Ethernet connection is fine but what's the point of having a notebook if you can't have wireless internet? My wireless indicator light is constantly on 'orange' or off and the only driver ubuntu recognizes as wireless is Alternate Atheros 'madwifi' driver which seems to be doing nothing. Does anyone else have this problem and is there any way to fix this?

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Phan Trọng Khanh (khanhpt) said : 		#1

You can try, right click in network connection icon, disable wireless and re-enable. It works with my HP dv 6500.

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#2

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: Please copy-paste the following command from the https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu website in Firefox into the Linux Terminal. Do NOT copy-paste from the Email message into the Terminal, as that will only copy PART of the command. The command STARTS with the word sudo and ENDS with the word restart. So please copy-paste the ENTIRE command below from Firefox into a Terminal, press <enter>, then enter password when sudo asks for password, then press enter again.

sudo lshw -C network; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -C usb; uname -a; dmesg | grep ound; dmesg | grep b43; dmesg | grep iwl; iwconfig; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

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

Regards,

Mark

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AVB (anna-van-brookhoven) said : 		#3

Hi. I decided to skirt the situation and try downloading Kubuntu which
seems to work better with my HP PC. It immediately recognized my
wireless card and nvidia graphics. I didn't try the gnome-nettool, but
to anyone out there with the dv6000 series notebooks with similar
specs might want to try it and see how it goes. So far, I'm a fan of
kubuntu. Thanks for responding to my posts, though.

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#4

Good to read the issue is solved.

If the issue is still resolved, please set the thread status to "solved"

Thanks,

Mark

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AVB (anna-van-brookhoven) said : 		#5

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.