dualbootr

ok to start ill give a bit of background

by friend who used to run linux (hates it) gave me the new Ubuntu and dual booted it with windows XP

ok the weird part.. he installed it and everything worked fine, even the internet

but now i restarted it and my internet isnt working, he has no idea how to fix it cause he 'doesnt do linux'

everything is set up correctly and it says i am connected, but when i try to load a web page it just loads for 5min and says it cant connect to the server

please help me out setting up my D-Link DWL-G510 Wireless G Desktop Adapter

im new to this whole command line thing so a walk through will be greatly appreciated

P.S. ive been looking around in this forum for about an hour without any clear help for my issue

Dapper Dan

Hi dualbootr and welcome to the forums! Did you try to configure your wireless device through the Ubuntu network configuration utility in your menu first? Does everything look okay there? If not, we might need to do further troubleshooting. Open a terminal and do:
It will ask for your password, so just enter it and presss enter. Copy that line down and post it here please. This will allow us to see the exact card, version and chipset you are running so as to better advise you on what to do next.

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dualbootr

ok ill do that next but first:

i got an error message that i haven't gotten before and thought it might be useful

"There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.

Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly.

The last error message was: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in."

i have not restarted linux yet, suspecting that the reason this thing cant run is the internet connection

dualbootr

ok i went into the terminal and typed exactly what you told me to and each time i entered it and hit enter it would come up blank..

Dapper Dan

Judt do:
...and find the line about your D-Link wireless device. Copy it down and post it here please.

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dualbootr

ok did that and got something more confusing.. i have three cards hooked up: one on motherboard (broken), landline, and wireless. but thats not the confusing part, windows says they are called completely different things:

Linux says: Windows says:

Dapper Dan

As Linux shows, it is an Atheros based card. Unfortunately, there seems to be problems with the newer MadWifi drivers as seen from this ticket. The ticket is for AR 5413 but read down and see where it is reported that the bug also affects AR 2413. A pity because Atheros cards with the MidwiFi drivers have worked very well (at least for me) for some time. The response from MadWifi is to:
...or maybe an older version. I believe they'll have this sorted in very short time though. I'd bookmark the ticket and see what happens with it.

Waterhead is really good with wireless. He'll likely see this thread and might know a way to get it operational that I don't know of. Sorry I couldn't help more...

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waterhead

I don't have a lot of experience with Atheros wireless. I do know that there is a new driver being developed, called ath5k, but it doesn't yet appear to support the ar2413 chip.

The usual suggestion to get this working is to install the latest version from the madwifi website. But if this has a bug in it, I don't have any suggestions, except maybe to use NDISwrapper.

NDISwrapper uses the WindowsXP driver for a wireless card, and it seems that others have used it with this card/chipset. You can use the driver that came on the driver CD that came with the wireless.

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dualbootr

thanks you guys this has been great help and a great first experience for me using linux. ill try everything i can and keep ya'll posted on my success

but if it turns out that i cannot get my card to work, can you suggest a cheap yet effective and easy to install wireless card if i have to buy another?

dualbootr

omfg it WORKS

im talking to you in ubuntu!!

thank you guys so much, its been a pleasure