help no option to connect to wireless

[htismaqe]

But... if it was me and thats the case, keep in mind you are running 8.04 we are now using 9.10. thats like really old. You could upgrade your system to the latest Ubuntu they have better drivers and your net-book will run faster.
This isn't always the easiest option but you will be getting a lot for your troubles.
Peter

The biggest reason (in my admittedly limited experience) to run an outdated distro is because of long-term support. Some people aren't fond of the fact that Ubuntu, among others, has a release every 6 months, so Canonical also releases an LTS version that is supported for like 3 years.

That being said, it doesn't explain running 8.04, since the LTS release is 8.10.

[perkunas]

not to nit pic, but...
""Some people aren't fond of the fact that Ubuntu, among others, has a release every 6 months, so"
My Ubuntu 9.04 webcam never worked (had a very smart dev. that couldn't get it going tried very hard) open GL never worked (intel problem) and my printer driver too. 9.10 they all work fine with small tweaks to the printer driver. "How long do you keep something that's broken?"
It's not very likely if I kept 9.04 they would bother to fix them either, they have moved on thats why it works now. My laptop flies, so much faster and better oh ya they sure fooled me.

[pophead]

You forgot the greater than sign.

By entering lspci lspci.txt it interpreted lspci.txt as an option on the command, and since that's not a valid option, it gave you the valid options.

Type lspci > lspci.txt to output to a file.

However, it appears that you have the ability to cut and paste directly out of terminal, so better yet just type lspci and lsusb instead and paste the output of those two.

thanks i didnt realise ile post output tonight

[reed9]

The biggest reason (in my admittedly limited experience) to run an outdated distro is because of long-term support. Some people aren't fond of the fact that Ubuntu, among others, has a release every 6 months, so Canonical also releases an LTS version that is supported for like 3 years.

That being said, it doesn't explain running 8.04, since the LTS release is 8.10.

8.04 is the LTS release.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

@pophead Please post the output of

lsmod

as well.

[htismaqe]

8.04 is the LTS release.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Oops. Sorry.

@pophead Please post the output of

lsmod

as well.

I hadn't gotten there yet. I wasn't going to have him run lsmod until we know what wireless adapter he has, that way we can pipe it through grep and avoid all the other drivers.

[reed9]

I hadn't gotten there yet. I wasn't going to have him run lsmod until we know what wireless adapter he has, that way we can pipe it through grep and avoid all the other drivers.

I usually avoid piping it through grep to avoid missing other drivers that may interfere with each other. For example ath_pci and ath_hal will interfere with ath5k or ath9k, ssd and b43 conflict with wl, ndiswrapper can conflict with other drivers. I find it simpler to get the whole picture right off the bat.

[perkunas]

I could be wrong as i have been before, but the latest release is
Download Ubuntu Netbook Remix | Ubuntu
ubuntu-9.10-netbook-remix-i386.iso

[htismaqe]

I could be wrong as i have been before, but the latest release is
Download Ubuntu Netbook Remix | Ubuntu
ubuntu-9.10-netbook-remix-i386.iso

Yes, that is the latest release. However, Ubuntu has two release cycles.

9.10 is the latest release on the rolling 6-month cycle. The 6-month versions are maintained for 18 months after release. 9.10 will be supported until April of 2011.

8.04 is the current LTS or Long-Term Support release. LTS releases are generally considered more "fully-baked" and are supported much longer. For example, 8.04 was released in April of 2008. The desktop version will be maintained until April of 2011. The server version will be maintained until April of 2013.

[htismaqe]

I usually avoid piping it through grep to avoid missing other drivers that may interfere with each other. For example ath_pci and ath_hal will interfere with ath5k or ath9k, ssd and b43 conflict with wl, ndiswrapper can conflict with other drivers. I find it simpler to get the whole picture right off the bat.

Well, I will defer to you because you have more experience than me.

[pophead]

joe@TOSHIBA-User:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
osd_driver 6232 5
i915 32512 3
parport_pc 36260 0
ppdev 10372 0
parport 37704 2 parport_pc,ppdev
acpi_cpufreq 10796 2
cpufreq_userspace 5156 0
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
cpufreq_conservative 8712 0
cpufreq_stats 7104 0
drm 82324 4 i915
joydev 13120 0
uvcvideo 58116 0
compat_ioctl32 2304 1 uvcvideo
videodev 29440 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 15492 2 uvcvideo,videodev
v4l2_common 18304 2 uvcvideo,videodev
psmouse 40336 0
serio_raw 7940 0
r8169 33156 0
iTCO_wdt 13092 0
iTCO_vendor_support 4868 1 iTCO_wdt
soundcore 8800 0
intel_agp 25492 1
agpgart 34760 3 drm,intel_agp
ahci 28420 2
squashfs 49032 0
unionfs 73168 0
ehci_hcd 37900 0
isofs 36004 0
zlib_inflate 18176 2 squashfs,isofs
joe@TOSHIBA-User:~$