Problem with wireless

[Nils Kassube]

Trey Sizemore wrote:
> I'm trying to get wireless working on a Compaq CQ50 laptop.  It *was*
> working at one time, but stopped recently and I have since installed
> the latest Ubuntu on it (kernel 2.6.35-28).

That's on a Maverick (10.10) system, isn't it?

> Network Manager from the Gnome taskbar shows wireless as disabled.
> 
> The wireless indicator just above the keypad on the laptop is blue,
> which I believe indicates that wireless is on and working.

That seems to be right because your output of iwconfig shows "Tx-Power=0 
dBm", i.e. the wireless is switched on. Otherwise the output would show 
"Tx-Power=off".

> $ lspci | grep -i ether

> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001
> Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

I tried this on my machine with AR5001 chipset from a Ubuntu 10.04 live 
CD:

Right-click on the network manager icon and select "Enable Wireless". 
Then left-click on the network manager icon and select your wireless 
network. Now you should be prompted for the wireless passphrase (if that 
isn't already known to NM).

If that doesn't work, can you try with another kernel? Or if you don't 
insist on using network manager, you could install wicd instead (and 
uninstall nm). Some people who have trouble with nm have better luck 
with wicd.


Nils