[Ubuntu Chicago] ubuntu wireless

[Wally Valters]

After you ran his script, did you reboot?  I have no idea how his script
varies from the manual way, but if it is playing with kernel modules you
should reboot.  I do not use wicd, no clue there, but what does ifconfig
show?  or the lspci or lshw like we ran before to see if anything changed?

If you remember lshw should show you the driver in use by your card.  If it
is still not showing you that, then the kernel is not associating your
hardware with a driver, hence it wont even be seen.  If this is a built in
card make sure you do not have it disabled at boot up, because chances are
the kernel will not load the driver then either.

The problem is the driver at this point.  Running around installing stuff to
manage a wireless card the kernel doesn't even recognize wont help.  I think
thinking you screwed up is a little premature, because there has been no
change.  You could not connect before and you cannot connect now.

Look the script you ran and see if it de-installs anything besides
installing things.  also type dmesg in a terminal window.  you can pipe that
to a file for looking at it as well, but it will show you kernel messages as
your system boots up, there may be a clue in there as to why this wont work


On 8/15/07, jason jenkins <jenkins27 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am not sure I understand what that means.
>
> on a side note I decided to go ahead with the automatic script and that
> seemed to work (it did installing stuff for a while then cam back to the
> prompt).  But I don't have any wireless, under connections it just has wired
> and modem where there used to be a wireless as well.  i assume this is
> because I no longer have network manager.  So I tried installing the wicd
> program and that didn't really work either because it still says there is no
> wireless found.  So it looks like I screwed stuff up pretty well.
>
> On 8/15/07, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> >
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> > jason jenkins wrote:
> > > ok, I am getting errors up the ying yang.
> > > on the 2nd part of the first step this is what happned:
> > > sudo apt-get build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
> > > E: Invalid operation build-essential
> > >
> >
> > sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
> >              ^^^^^^^
> >
> > John
> > =:->
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