Help With Wireless Connection

[Lanx]

Hello, I just recentally instaled Ubuntu and am having trouble settinng up a wireless network. I'm was using a SWL - 2300U wireless adapter to connect with Windows, and upon switching to Linux I've realized that it can not recognize any drivers for this. I later got an Intel Anypoint wireless || network adapter, but that isn't compatiable with Linux either.

My questions are: What would I need to get to have a wireless internet connection with Linux, could I get it cheap anywhere, and is it possible to somehow get Linux to recognize either one of my adapters. I'm really at a loss, and would very much like to use Linux, but simply don't have any use for it if I can't even get online. Thank you for your time in reading this, and I would really appreciate any help.

[marbobj]

I've used TP Link. They are pretty low priced, but work well in Ubuntu. Ubuntu has a built in driver for that one.

[Lanx]

Thanks, I'll try that.

[waterhead]

In Linux, the wireless drivers are written for the boards' chipsets. It is important to know the model and manufacturer of the chipsets. To find out this info, type this into a terminal.

For a PCI or built in card

ls pci

For a USB card

ls usb -v

Look for information about the wireless and post it here.

[Lanx]

When I type either one into the terminal I get a "No such file or directory'. But it seems I got lucky anyway, I ordered one, and tried it out, it gave me a little trouble as all technology seems to do, but I've got it to work.

[waterhead]

Sorry, the commands should have looked like this:

lspci
lsusb -v

[Lanx]

Well, an interesting stuation has arrised. I was streaming a movie, and all the sudden it was getting all choppy, then when I tryed to move the mouse the movement was all choppy, and when I tryed to exit my window nothing happened, and I couldn't even move my curor. So I shut off my computer. When I turned it back on my wifi card no longer works...I'm not entirely sure how I got it to work last time either. I have the driver for it, but everything on the disk is in .exe format so I don't think it's any good. How I did it last time was, just stick the card in press a few buttons and eventually it work, but this time it's not working...the "Statue" light turn on but that's about all it does.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Lanx]

Disregard that, I unplugged and re-plugged the card about 6times, and eventually it started working again.

[zoltair wright]

I'm having the very same problem with the very same WLAN adapter - SWL-2300U. For reasons of abject poverty, I can't afford to buy a different adapter - heck, I'm writing this over my neighbor's unsecured wifi, on my girlfriend's computer. So I'm trying to figure out how to use the one I've got. I ran lsusb -v as suggested above, and the relevant line read:

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 055d:b230 Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co.

And then the rest of the adapter's info from there on. I'm running absolutely vanilla Ubuntu 7.10, in fact just installed it a couple of days ago. I like Ubuntu a lot so far, but it's tough to get an idea if I can use it day-to-day without connecting it to the internet. If anybody has any suggestions, it'd be really appreciated. Thanks!

[waterhead]

To see if there is a native Linux driver loading, enter this command and post the output.

lsmod

You may need to use NDISwrapper. You would then need to remove and blacklist any native driver.

Here are some commands to try.

sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
sudo iwconfig wlan0 ap any
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid any
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
sudo dhclient wlan0
sudo iwevent

Watch for the events. If that does not work, set your access point to your router's MAC manually, e.g.:

sudo iwconfig wlan0 ap 00:60:1D:01:23:45 (change this to match your access point)

I got this info from the Ubuntu forums
Please Help - I Can't connect to wireless router - Page 2 - Ubuntu Forums