help no option to connect to wireless

[pophead]

I have recently purchased a toshiba nb100. It took me a while to get used to the linux ubuntu os but sort of got hang of it now.It connected to wireless fine yesterday but now the symbol for internet when click only gives you option to connect wired and point to point.please help as its no use to me withought internet.

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help people i dnt know whats wrong and its gunna be a waste of money if nno internet

[perkunas]

This may sound stupid, but i like it simple, I'm guessing you are using a laptop.
Laptops have a on off button for wireless cards, mine is located above the 2 button.
My old one had it on the front, some times you have to reboot even after pushing it.
What are you using, and what version of Ubuntu do you have.?
Peter

[perkunas]

P.S.
Just googled it and it is above your 2 button, there are 2 of them one for on and one for off. Hope this helps
Tnx

[pophead]

im using a netbook and its running ubuntu 8.04 thanks Joe

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ive tried that but nothing happens it says wireless on and then when i click the icon at top left of screen to select internet option and it says wired

[htismaqe]

You're running Ubuntu 8.04? And it's an internal wireless, right?

It would be helpful if you could provide some info - you'll probably have to copy it to a USB stick in order to paste it here (or you could hand type it, but that's awful to have to do).

Open up a terminal window within Linux and enter the below commands. Then paste the output here - the commands below output to a file, so you could either just attach the files or you could copy and paste the contents in CODE tags. You may need to "sudo" these commands, if you're not sure what that means, let me know.

lspci > lspci.txt
lsusb > lsusb.txt

lspci and lsusb will tell us what, if any, wireless hardware your OS recognized (both of them won't apply, just one of them depending on whether you have USB or PCI wireless, but doing them both avoids any confusion).

Once you post that info, we can look at whether or not any drivers or loaded and go from there.

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List USB devices
-v, --verbose
Increase verbosity (show descriptors)
-s [[bus]:][devnum]
Show only devices with specified device and/or
bus numbers (in decimal)
-d vendor:[product]
Show only devices with the specified vendor and
product ID numbers (in hexadecimal)
-D device
Selects which device lsusb will examine
-t
Dump the physical USB device hierarchy as a tree
-V, --version
Show version of program
joe@TOSHIBA-User:~$ lspci lspci.txt




-v Be verbose
-n Show numeric ID's
-nn Show both textual and numeric ID's (names & numbers)
-b Bus-centric view (PCI addresses and IRQ's instead of those seen by the CPU)
-x Show hex-dump of the standard portion of config space
-xxx Show hex-dump of the whole config space (dangerous; root only)
-xxxx Show hex-dump of the 4096-byte extended config space (root only)
-s [[[[<domain>]:]<bus>]:][<slot>][.[<func>]] Show only devices in selected slots
-d [<vendor>]:[<device>] Show only selected devices
-t Show bus tree
-m Produce machine-readable output
-i <file> Use specified ID database instead of /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz
-D Always show domain numbers
-M Enable `bus mapping' mode (dangerous; root only)
-P <dir> Use specified directory instead of /proc/bus/pci
-H <mode> Use direct hardware access (<mode> = 1 or 2)
-F <file> Read configuration data from given file
-G Enable PCI access debugging



hope ive done right thing only had netbook three days and its my first three days using ubuntu/linux

[perkunas]

I'm no expert I'm kind of new like you, but I have been using Ubuntu on off for a couple years so anyway ill try my best.
1st thing that comes to mind, if you are pushing the wireless button and it says it's on then maybe it is. Why not try un-pluging your wireless router and or modem. Wait at least 5 min, then plug it back in some have reset buttons. The router will reset itself with new connections and your net-book might just find it now. If your wireless software and or settings are screwed (although if it just worked i don't believe it) I cant help you much there. 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

[htismaqe]

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.