Wireless connectivity

[Reversik]

Having some problems connecting to wireless I'm on Kubuntu and it sometimes will connect and then when I try to get a webpage it wont load it. But when I am on a wired connection it works just fine. Sometimes it doesn't connect at all on the wirless so if anyone could please help me out that'd be a great help. FYI I trying using adept to find some wireless tools just to see if it wasn't the one that came with the disk. Thanks for any replies~

[waterhead]

Read through this post:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...tml#post589924

And post the output of the commands here.

[Reversik]

Ok I did the USB one and it came out with this.

Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0bda:8187 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:00e1 Microsoft Corp. Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 Reciever
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Any of that stuff help?

[waterhead]

Your wireless seems to use the Linux rtl8187 driver. If you enter this command in a terminal, you should find it in the list.

lsmod

If it is not there, let me know. or post the output of that command in this thread.

I don't know of any special configurations needed to get this card to work. You may need to first configure it, as you would need to do any other network card. Then use the NetworkManager daemon to access wireless access points. This can be accessed through the icon in the system tray. You may need to right-click it to enable wireless. Any available networks are then accessed by clicking on them.

[Reversik]

Here is what I got when I inputed the command.


sky2 47492 0
rtl8187 36096 0
mac80211 165652 1 rtl8187
cfg80211 15112 1 mac80211
eeprom_93cx6 3200 1 rtl8187
ipv6 267780 14
af_packet 23812 2
binfmt_misc 12808 1
rfcomm 41744 2
l2cap 25728 13 rfcomm
bluetooth 61156 4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev 10372 0
powernow_k8 16704 1
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
cpufreq_userspace 5284 0
cpufreq_conservative 8712 0
cpufreq_stats 7104 0
cpufreq_ondemand 9740 1
freq_table 5536 3 powernow_k8,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
sbs 15112 0
sbshc 7680 1 sbs
container 5632 0
dock 11280 0
iptable_filter 3840 0
ip_tables 14820 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 16132 1 ip_tables
aes_i586 33536 0
dm_crypt 15364 0
dm_mod 62660 1 dm_crypt
sbp2 24072 0
parport_pc 36260 0
lp 12324 0
parport 37832 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
loop 18948 0
joydev 13120 0
pcmcia 40876 0
arc4 2944 2
ecb 4480 2
blkcipher 8324 1 ecb
snd_hda_intel 344728 8
snd_pcm_oss 42144 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 78596 4 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy 4868 0
tifm_7xx1 8576 0
snd_seq_oss 35584 0
tifm_core 11012 1 tifm_7xx1
fglrx 1555468 20
video 19856 0
yenta_socket 27276 1
rsrc_nonstatic 13696 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 40596 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
output 4736 1 video
snd_seq_midi 9376 0
snd_rawmidi 25760 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8320 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 54224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
snd_timer 24836 4 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9612 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
psmouse 40336 0
snd 56996 23 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,sn d_hwdep,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_ seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
serio_raw 7940 0
ati_agp 9996 0
battery 14212 0
i2c_piix4 9612 0
button 9232 0
ac 6916 0
agpgart 34760 2 fglrx,ati_agp
soundcore 8800 1 snd
i2c_core 24832 1 i2c_piix4
shpchp 34452 0
pci_hotplug 30880 1 shpchp
k8temp 6656 0
evdev 13056 7
pcspkr 4224 0
usbhid 31872 0
hid 38784 1 usbhid
ext3 136712 1
jbd 48404 1 ext3
mbcache 9600 1 ext3
sg 36880 0
sr_mod 17956 0
cdrom 37408 1 sr_mod
sd_mod 30720 4
atiixp 5648 0 [permanent]
ide_core 113996 1 atiixp
pata_atiixp 8960 3
pata_acpi 8320 0
ohci1394 33584 0
ieee1394 93752 2 sbp2,ohci1394
ata_generic 8324 0
ehci_hcd 37900 0
libata 159344 3 pata_atiixp,pata_acpi,ata_generic
scsi_mod 151436 5 sbp2,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
ohci_hcd 25348 0
usbcore 146028 5 rtl8187,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
thermal 16796 0
processor 36872 2 powernow_k8,thermal
fan 5636 0
fbcon 42912 0
tileblit 3456 1 fbcon
font 9472 1 fbcon
bitblit 6784 1 fbcon
softcursor 3072 1 bitblit
fuse 50708 3

[waterhead]

You didn't need to post all that. The driver is the second from the top.

Have tried to configure the card?

[Reversik]

Sorry I'm just a bit new to Linux , um I'm not too sure. Whenever I try to get connected the wireless I can get maybe one or two pages loaded, after that it stops working.

[waterhead]

I mean have you configured the wireless as a network card. To bring up the network configuration window, enter this command:

sudo network-admin

This can also be started from the menu by selecting Network.

Make sure that it is pointing towards the wireless router, and any other thing that is needed. I don't use wireless on Ubuntu, so I'm not exactly sure on this.

Then try what I previously said about using NetworkManager.

To view the wireless cards available on your system, use this command.

iwconfig

Post the output of this command. It is a lot less than the lsmod command.

[Reversik]

For the iwconfig I got.

lo no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:18:39:BA4:B9
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Link Quality=44/64 Signal level=57/65
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

I think I may have gotten it working I just unplugged it and I tried some options after looking through all the information you've given to me to help. Hopefully it stays working but I'll post this up there.

[Reversik]

Well I restarted the computer and now the wireless doesn't want to work again. The first time I went to the tray right clicked the KNetworkManager and went to manual configuration and then clicked on wlan0 and did configure interface and set it to automatic because my router doesn't have a WEP and it seemed to work fine. Then I restarted and now it doesn't want to work and when I tried to do it again it said something about the gateway.