Help
I just recently formatted my older computer (desktop) and put Ubuntu 9.04 on it. It installed successfully, but now that I have plugged in my wireless adapter to connect the internet, It does not seem to work.
I realized that I need a driver to get my wireless card (Belkin Wireless G FD7000 V. 4000) to work. I downloaded mad-wifi and installed it. I followed the instructions the How-to page. While I was using the terminal, it said that I had to install the package madwifi-tools... using apt-get. I could not connect to the internet using wifi, and therefore it encountered an error when I tried to use apt-get, saying that it could not locate the package.
I then proceeded to download ndiswrapper (common files, utilities, and ndisgtk according to the ubuntu how-to page)...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/...ver/Ndiswrapper
then installed all of the packages in the correct order. I put in my Windows Driver CD, located the correct .INF file, and installed it. Once completed, ndisgtk said that it could not locate the hardware... but as soon as I closed that window, the ndisgtk main window stated that the hardware was present. I still could not locate my wireless network, and so I installed the windows 98 driver as well.
By my network card "not working", I mean that it can neither find my network in the connections app, nor establish a connection to it. I have manually entered all of the correct information into the network connection app, including my WEP key, correct ESSID, and everything else, but to no avail. I have searched for the access point and everything.
Below is my ifconfig and iwconfig:
ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0a:e6:fb:17:34
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B ) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B )
Interrupt:23 Base address:0x4000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B ) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B )
iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
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
pan0 no wireless extensions.
Please Help me! I'm really new to Linux so if someone could explain what I need to do in simple terms, I should be able to catch on.
Thank you very much!
Fearmyawesome
This post has been edited by fearmyawesome: 23 September 2009 - 11:12 AM
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