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gnome-nettool package

8.04 wifi connection trouble!!!

Asked by Jon

Hi my name is Jon and I have a dell desktop which my cousin gave to me and when he gave it to me it had ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron on it and I enjoyed the time I had so far with it. Now the problem I am having is that about four months ago the wifi wouldn't connect to my router and every time I put in my router name and WEP key it would not connect. And I have heard about sudos or something but I dont know how to use them. I would really enjoy if someone could help me out. I know nothing about computers to be honest, so thats why I came here. Thank you.

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Ubuntu gnome-nettool Edit question
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Mark Rijckenberg Edit question
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anonymous1 (anonymous1-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

The community documentation has vast information on this topic.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

If after reading basic docs you are still in trouble...

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 -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

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

And wait for Mark Rijckenberg answer...

Then you can try to read the already answered question here https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool

Regards.

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