TalkTalk + Huawei HG521 + Ubuntu 10.04.01 i386 + misery, ANY IDEAS?

[Alan Pope]

On 1 October 2010 16:12, r <technical500 at talktalk.net> wrote:
> at the top right, the leftmost icon is concentric circles like a "sonar"
> image with a red exclamation mark.
>

That's the puppy!

> when I click that I see:
>
> (Wired Network)
>  (disconnected)
> (Wireless Networks)
>  (disconnected)
> VPN Connections » Configure VPN...
>                  (Disconnect VPN...)
>

That's basically bad. It means that we didn't detect your USB wireless
dongle (assuming it's plugged in).

The rest of your mail describes the process for setting up a network,
but without the hardware being detected it's ultimately futile.

Can you plug the USB stick in and then issue the following commands:-

lsusb

(lima sierra uniform sierra bravo)

You should get a list of USB devices, from which we can get the device
ID (sequence of characters separated by colons) and can figure out if
it can be made to work.

One thing you might like to try if you have an ethernet cable handy is
plug the pc into the access point. I appreciate that the reason for
using wifi is probably because your desktop is some physical distance
from the access point, but this may help. Once connected via a wire,
go to System -> administration -> hardware drivers, and see if it
prompts you to install drivers for the wireless card. Also run System
-> administration -> update manager, and install any/all system
updates, which may also help.

Cheers,
Al.