Wireless and external hard drive not connecting.

[JJR]

I am running the latest Ubuntu on a partition with windows 7 as my main OS. I got my wireless drivers installed and it seems to pick up on all the wireless networks, whenever i try to connect to mine it tires and then fails and asks for the password again, even though its definatly the right password for my wireless.

I am also having trouble connecting to my external hard drive, i am completely new with Linux and would appreshiate -retard proof- tutorials if you need me to run anything, and such. Its fully updated and drivers are up to date (apparently) so i cant understand what is wrong.

Thank you for any help you can offer on either of my problems.
JJR

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

I am also having trouble connecting to my external hard drive, i am completely new with Linux and would appreshiate -retard proof- tutorials if you need me to run anything, and such. Its fully updated and drivers are up to date (apparently) so i cant understand what is wrong.

Plug-in External Disk and execute this in Terminal :

tail -s 3 -f /var/log/messages
sudo fdisk -l

Post output here.
* Its small L in fdisk -l.

I don't have much experience in Wireless section. I hope someone will chime in and post pointers very soon.

[JJR]

I toggled about with my wireless drivers and the external wireless button and managed to get my wireless working now, i am still having trouble connecting to my 500gb WG elements external hard drive, it does seem to want to mount

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 12: Failed to read last sector (976771119): Invalid argument
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

That is the error i get.

[JJR]

if i do the terminal thing you said to do all of this come up


Aug 17 12:46:19 jacob-laptop kernel: [ 3634.642267] scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Aug 17 12:46:24 jacob-laptop kernel: [ 3639.643641] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD Ext HDD 1021 2002 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
Aug 17 12:46:24 jacob-laptop kernel: [ 3639.647997] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Aug 17 12:46:24 jacob-laptop kernel: [ 3639.651172] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 976769024 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
Aug 17 12:46:24 jacob-laptop kernel: [ 3639.652731] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
Aug 17 12:46:24 jacob-laptop kernel: [ 3639.654466] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
Aug 17 12:46:24 jacob-laptop kernel: [ 3639.654481] sdb: sdb1
Aug 17 12:46:24 jacob-laptop kernel: [ 3639.665625] sdb: p1 size 976771120 exceeds device capacity, limited to end of disk
Aug 17 12:46:25 jacob-laptop kernel: [ 3639.671152] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
Aug 17 12:46:25 jacob-laptop kernel: [ 3639.671165] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
sudo fdisk -l

when i try to type in sudo fdisk -l nothing happens

[devils casper]

Is there any data in External disk?
sudo fdisk -l command lists partitions of all available Hard disks. Doesn't it list partitions of internal list?

[JJR]

jacob@jacob-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for jacob:

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcc87f825

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25499 204816352+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 28950 30401 11660288 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 25499 28950 27717633 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 25499 28802 26526720 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 28802 28950 1189888 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500105740288 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002cd43

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 60802 488385560 7 HPFS/NTFS

is that it?

[devils casper]

Is there any data in External Disk?
Try to manually mount its partition, /dev/sdb1.

cd /media
sudo mkdir sdb1
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g  /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1  -o force,defaults,umask=0
ls sdb1

[Kloschüssel]

If you're external is a 500gb HD, yes. The partition is also recognized and it should be a NTFS filesystem on it. fdisk can't tell you if the partition is clean. You should run a fsck on the partition /dev/sdb1.

What is your wireless encryption (wep, wpa, wpa2, ..)?

[JJR]

jacob@jacob-laptop:~$ cd /media
jacob@jacob-laptop:/media$ sudo mkdir sdb1
[sudo] password for jacob:
jacob@jacob-laptop:/media$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media /sdb1 -o force,defaults,umask=0
Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place
mount directory : mount known device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
One can change the type of mount containing the directory dir:
mount --make-shared dir
mount --make-slave dir
mount --make-private dir
mount --make-unbindable dir
One can change the type of all the mounts in a mount subtree
containing the directory dir:
mount --make-rshared dir
mount --make-rslave dir
mount --make-rprivate dir
mount --make-runbindable dir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say man 8 mount .
jacob@jacob-laptop:/media$ ls sdb1

that is what happened, and i have my wireless thing sorted out now but thanks Kloschüssel

[Kloschüssel]

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 -o force,defaults,umask=0

you've got a small whitespace error