Linksys problem

[muko]

I have Kubuntu 5.10 breezy. First, my internal wireless internet card in my laptop (hp pav zv5000, don't know the wireless card model) won't turn on, but I just need wireless internet temporarily (I need internet access that doesn't block gnuetella so I have to go somewhere besides my school), so I decided to go to Wal-Mart and buy one, because with their 45 day return policy I can return it after I'm done... <_< >_> ... and I figured it'd be easier than fixing my other problem. Anywho, then I found out that I had to download linuxant to get driver support for it, that wasn't hard. And now the card is recognized by the computer and will pick up networks, but that doesn't translate to actually being able to use it. For some reason it just stops at letting me know that there are networks out there and that I'm connected to one... it just won't let me actually use it. Soooo... I went into kcontrol (after stumbling around doing other random crap to see if I could find the problem) and went into network settings. There I found both the ethernet and wlan0 listed, both disabled (I wasn't plugged into the internet either at the time). So I tried to enable the wlan0, but it will just flash the green checkmark saying enabled and go right back to disabled. I can get it to remain "enabled" by first taking out the card and then clicking enable and then reinserting the card, but in actuality it does nothing and if I exit the settings and then come back it's back to saying disabled (like I said, a lot of random crap). Does anyone know what I should do? Getting my internal card working would be preferred, but like I said, I only need wireless access temporarily, so getting either to work would be great.

Edit: Linksys WPC54G ver. 2... in case anyone needs that.

[engineuity]

you may be able to get your internal card configured and working properly by using these instructions http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000167 apparently you can find out your chipset through kinfocenter. Then, ndiswrapper uses the card's windows drivers.

[vidd]

I have the same laptop.....
you get the internal to work by following the instructions HERE
You will need to download the drivers for your wireless card from the LIST
get the chipset by typing lspci in the terminal
when you download the file, it will be an .exe file, and MUST be opened in windows. Once the file is uncompressed, copy the entire folder to a cd so that you can use it with ndiswraper. DO NOT USE the file on the recovery disks...it WILL NOT work
to install ndiswrapper, simply use apt-get install ndiswrapper
then follow the instructions referenced above.

I did all this with my .laptop connected directly to the router.

Once the driver is installed correctly, you will not have the issue of the connection "dissapearring"

good luck