ilanesh

I have installed feisty fawn and am in trouble now.
My wireless was always working out of the box with ubuntu, and not with other linux distros
But feisty fawn i don`t no what is happen, it took me long to get it work and it worked only twice and stoped to work. I have ipw3945
how this can be that in feisty fawn it is not working and in all the older ubuntu it is working out of the box? I have to connected a wire only for to have internet on my laptop, this is not good, help please. or I must stay with the older ubuntu version, sadly.

Oxygen

It may just be the Beta Effect. Unless you're going to give a bit of output I don't think I'll be able to recommend anything, what does iwlist say?

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ilanesh

thanks Oxygen, well I don`t no what is an output, I have no output or something like such a software.
for me all is this new, i am used to pclinuxos where everything works out of the box. With only one time configuration for wireless.
Now i have replaced ubuntu feisty with linux mint bianca, and there i got the same problem , only the first time it works and then when rebooting it is even gone the wireless, is not found anymore on the computer in bianca. I thought bianca is not anymore beta? But I guess I donwloadet it the time when it still was beta, maybe I should redownload it and reinstall. it is Ubuntu based, so it is actually almost the same.
So maybe I wait till the stable is release, cause I have a brandnew laptop and they even warned not to install beta there. So its all my fault.

Oxygen

Thought you were a tad more expirience, open the console (terminal) and type iwconfig then post the output here.

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ilanesh

I use distros where you don`t need command line, and slso I tried it a few times and it crashed my desktop, so better i stay away.
thanks.

ilanesh

laptop:*~‬$* ‬iwconfig
lo* ‬no wireless extensions.

eth0* ‬no wireless extensions.

my eth1 is not showing up anymore,
on the live cd it works out of the box, but not after beeing installed, it disapeared, I evne reinstalled the whole distro again, but then only twice it functions after los of hard work, and then it stoped, I have always to boot upr to another distro only for to go online, this is not fun.
or they support these wireless, or not, so am forced to leave distros who don`t work, it is sad.

ilanesh

I have it posted, befor you wrote me, this is the answer, hope you see it, very few words are the answer and I copied them. thanks, nothing is working an all the ubuntu distors, I mean the new once, the older once work out of the box, only not the new distro`s, why? they don`t support it anymore? is it cause of it?

lingd

I also have probs with my wireless card, after upgrading from Edgy to Fiesty (yes, Beta). I had used ndiswrapper for my Netgear card.

Whilst I see the AP with iwlist , I cannot set any values with iwconfig.

If anyone could offer suggestions, it would be appreciated.

my info:
>> sudo ndiswrapper -l; cat /etc/modules
netma521 : driver installed
device (10EC:8180) present (alternate driver: r818x)
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

lp
ndiswrapper


>> iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:95:40:D3:5F
ESSID:"AP"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:79/100 Signal level:-45 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=47129
Cell 02 - Address: 00:E0:98:FE:A2:18
ESSID:"05B404978712"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:35/100 Signal level:-73 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=200
Extra:atim=14337

>> sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:off/any
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr=2432 B
Encryption key:1234-5678-9A Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

>> sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid AP mode Managed
>> sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:off/any
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr=2432 B
Encryption key:1234-5678-9A Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

>>

devils casper

its a BUG in Feisty. 'wired network' bug is resolved after last upgrade. development team is working on resolving 'wireless' problem.

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lingd

Thanks, devils_casper! What a relief to hear that:
1. I'm not doing anything incorrectly.
2. The bug is being resolved.


Cheers.