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Ubuntu wireless internet problems

  • 25-11-2008 10:50pm
    #1
    Dunmoon
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭


    hi, I have an old pentium3 dell running winXP and decided to try out ubuntu via wubi to see how good/bad it is as an OS. This computer was connecting fine to internet wirelessly using a Sweex LW055 wireless router and USB receiver. After successfully downloading and installing ubuntu with no problems, I find that I cant connect to the internet. I have tried help files and searching other forums but to no avail. Would really like to try out the internet this way as I feel it would be a big improvement over MS Windows.
    All advice appreciated.


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  • #2
    An Fear Aniar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭An Fear Aniar


    I've looked on Google and the pickings are really thin, so it may not be possible to connect this thing. It will help if you type these commands one-by-one in the terminal and copy and paste the output here (use the Wrap Code tags so it formats better):
    lsusb

    lshw -C network

    ifconfig

    iwconfig

    iwlist scan


    .


  • #3
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    better still paste the results into http://pastebin.com/ and stick the link here.


  • #4
    Cantab.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,444 ✭✭✭Cantab.


    sudo apt-get install wicd

    Only a matter of time before wicd Ubuntu trumps Network Manager as the default.


  • #5
    db
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭db


    I did something similar recently with an old Dell notebook. Do a search for linux drivers for the USB device. If you don't have any luck with that you should still be able to use the windows driver with ndiswrapper. I found the right drivers for my usb device but I came across the second method when I was looking.


  • #6
    Dunmoon
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭Dunmoon


    Hi An Fear Aniar i did what you asked me to do and saved the scan results as a document file but this windows computer won't open the file for me to paste the results


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  • #7
    An Fear Aniar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭An Fear Aniar


    Dunmoon wrote: »
    Hi An Fear Aniar i did what you asked me to do and saved the scan results as a document file but this windows computer won't open the file for me to paste the results

    I see what you mean. Try saving it as a .txt file. That might work. File endings don't matter so much in Linux as they do in Windows.

    .


  • #8
    Dunmoon
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭Dunmoon


    Update: unfortunately my daughter has accidently broken the screen on her laptop and has "requisitioned" my computer monitor until she gets a new screen fitted. So my experiments with ubuntu have been put on hold for a while. Many thanks to all who have taken the interest to reply to my thread and maybe can be of help when I try again.


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