PROBLEM SOLVED - USER ERROR - Cannot connect to home router but can to neighbors router

Asked by custampin

PLEASE DISREGARD THIS QUESTION. CHALK IT UP TO USER ERROR! I had to add the wireless mac address to my router. Quickly solved the problem.

I ran this command

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

that someone else recommended in a different question and the response is listed below. It currently shows a connection to linksys, but that is a neighbors network, not mine. I am very new to Ubuntu so please be specific with any instructions as I am primarily a Windows user.

Thank you so much for your help.

paul@paul-pc:~$ sudo lshw -C network; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | grep ound; dmesg | grep b43; dmesg | grep wl; dmesg | grep witch; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
[sudo] password for paul:
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:40:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:0f:fe:41:cb:b4
       capacity: 1GB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.99 firmware=5751-v3.29a latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
       resources: irq:17 memory:f0400000-f040ffff
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 4
       bus info: pci@0000:05:04.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 00
       serial: 00:18:e7:71:69:6e
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+net8190p driverversion=1.55+Realtek,08/08/2008,5.1061.0 ip=192.168.1.110 latency=32 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
       resources: irq:16 ioport:1000(size=256) memory:f0500000-f0500fff
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 02:E0:95:CF:87:9F
                    ESSID:"vicpaul"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                    Mode:Ad-Hoc
                    Frequency:2.417 GHz (Channel 2)
                    Quality:51/100 Signal level:-63 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
          Cell 02 - Address: 00:24:01:7A:B5:B6
                    ESSID:"vicpaul"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.417 GHz (Channel 2)
                    Quality:57/100 Signal level:-59 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
          Cell 03 - Address: 00:16:B6:02:9E:0D
                    ESSID:"linksys"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Quality:45/100 Signal level:-67 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
          Cell 04 - Address: 00:0F:B5:6B:E1:C2
                    ESSID:"NETGEAR"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                    Quality:37/100 Signal level:-72 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
          Cell 05 - Address: 00:12:0E:8D:CC:F0
                    ESSID:"07FX11007605"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Quality:37/100 Signal level:-72 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL Memory Controller Hub [8086:2580] (rev 04)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2582] (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2660] (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2662] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 [8086:2658] (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 [8086:2659] (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 [8086:265a] (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 [8086:265b] (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:265c] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:266e] (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:2640] (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller [8086:266f] (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller [8086:2651] (rev 03)
05:04.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8190]
40:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1677] (rev 01)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
==========================================================
                                   system HP Compaq dc5100 MT(PZ583UA)
/0 bus 09E0h
/0/1 memory 128KiB BIOS
/0/5 processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
/0/5/6 memory 28KiB L1 cache
/0/5/7 memory 2MiB L2 cache
/0/5/1.1 processor Logical CPU
/0/5/1.2 processor Logical CPU
/0/33 memory System Memory
/0/33/0 memory 512MiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 533 MHz (1.9 ns)
/0/33/1 memory 1GiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 533 MHz (1.9 ns)
/0/33/2 memory 512MiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 533 MHz (1.9 ns)
/0/33/3 memory 1GiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 533 MHz (1.9 ns)
/0/34 memory Flash Memory
/0/34/0 memory 512KiB Chip FLASH Non-volatile
/0/0 memory
/0/2 memory
/0/100 bridge 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL Memory Controller Hub
/0/100/2 display 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/1c bridge 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express P
/0/100/1c.1 bridge 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express P
/0/100/1c.1/0 eth0 network NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
/0/100/1d bus 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1
/0/100/1d.1 bus 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2
/0/100/1d.2 bus 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3
/0/100/1d.3 bus 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4
/0/100/1d.7 bus 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Con
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1e/4 wlan0 network Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
/0/100/1e.2 multimedia 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio C
/0/100/1f bridge 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge
/0/100/1f.1 scsi0 storage 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controlle
/0/100/1f.1/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 81GB Maxtor 6Y080P0
/0/100/1f.1/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 76GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.1/0.1.0 /dev/cdrom disk RW/DVD GCC-4481B
/0/100/1f.1/0.1.0/0 /dev/cdrom disk
/0/100/1f.2 scsi2 storage 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0 /dev/sdb disk 80GB SAMSUNG HD080HJ
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/1 /dev/sdb1 volume 188MiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2 /dev/sdb2 volume 74GiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2/5 /dev/sdb5 volume 3812MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2/6 /dev/sdb6 volume 70GiB Linux filesystem partition
Linux paul-pc 2.6.31-16-generic-pae #53-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 8 05:20:21 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00fe700] fe700
[ 0.172813] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.219801] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices
[ 0.849883] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.036180] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.036527] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.036819] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.037111] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.037414] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.041177] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 1.046728] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 12.076210] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 14.044884] wlan0: ethernet device 00:18:e7:71:69:6e using NDIS driver: net8190p, version: 0x500a5, NDIS version: 0x500, vendor: 'Realtek RTL8190 Wireless LAN (Mini-)PCI NIC ', 10EC:8190.5.conf
[ 14.044929] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
[ 14.052084] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 74.908374] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 75.827261] wlan0: IPv6 duplicate address detected!
[ 0.701163] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1
[ 0.704044] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
[ 1.701441] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linksys"
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:16:B6:02:9E:0D
          Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
          RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:48/100 Signal level:-65 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:# replaced by b43 and ssb.
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf:blacklist twl4030_wdt
/etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper:alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface wlan0=wlan0.

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Best Chris Johnston (cjohnston) said :
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Please mark the question as solved so it will close.

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custampin (custampin) said :
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Thanks Chris Johnston, that solved my question.