Completely New and Trying to Set Up Wireless

[brm4620]

How do I go about setting up wireless using Ubuntu on a Macbook Pro? I'm so new to this that I can't even figure out what kind of card I'm using!

Any thanks would be greatly appreciated!

[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!

Check out this page: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...tart-here.html

Post back with the requested information.

[brm4620]

Here's the info I got:


============ kernel version ============
11.0.0

============ ifconfig ============
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULT ICAST> mtu 1500
options=27<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,TSO4>
ether d4:9a:20:f9:85:5e
media: autoselect
status: inactive
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULT ICAST> mtu 1500
ether f8:1e:df:df:f9:ff
inet6 fe80::fa1e:dfff:fedf:f9ff%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
inet 192.168.1.37 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
media: autoselect
status: active
fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULT ICAST> mtu 4078
lladdr d4:9a:20:ff:fe:f9:85:5e
media: autoselect <full-duplex>
status: inactive
p2p0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
ether 0a:1e:df:df:f9:ff
media: autoselect
status: inactive

============ iwconfig ============

[brm4620]

Can someone explain what any of that means?

[jayd512]

You're missing some of the information that was requested in the page that I linked you to.
And the output that is there is a bit jumbled from its normal format
Could you try that one more time? And post all of the info, in its entirety.
Perhaps the Setup Script, mentioned in the second post, will help with that.

[brm4620]

============ lspci ============


============ lsusb ============


============ lsmod ============


============ dmesg-firmware ============


============ kernel version ============
11.0.0


============ ifconfig ============
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULT ICAST> mtu 1500
options=27<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,TSO4>
ether d4:9a:20:f9:85:5e
media: autoselect
status: inactive
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULT ICAST> mtu 1500
ether f8:1e:df:df:f9:ff
inet6 fe80::fa1e:dfff:fedf:f9ff%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
inet 192.168.1.37 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
media: autoselect
status: active
fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULT ICAST> mtu 4078
lladdr d4:9a:20:ff:fe:f9:85:5e
media: autoselect <full-duplex>
status: inactive
p2p0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
ether 0a:1e:df:df:f9:ff
media: autoselect
status: inactive

============ iwconfig ============

[brm4620]

I can't figure out how to configure it better

[jayd512]

Are you running these commands in your OSX system?
Because while I haven't used a Mac in the last year or so, that's what it looks like from the output.

Have you installed Ubuntu, yet? If so, boot into it. Then run the commands.

[brm4620]

ahhhhh, gotcha