Hi, I've recently purchased a laptop (Acer Aspire 1632Li), and a laptop is nothing without a wireless network so that was added... (W-router: Dlink DI-824VUP+ and WLan PCMCA card: Dlink DWL-G650+). I've got the Fedora 3 distro on my desktop, but for the laptop I decided to go with Ubuntu. But, as you might have guessed, the Wireless network doesn't work... I've and I got the card installed, using this guide, but when I do a iwlist wlan0 scan the card can't find my home network (wich works like a charm on XP), Oh I guess, the card isn't up, so I do a ifconfig wlan0 up but that doesn't help... if I disable the Ethernet connection and try to up the wlan (by doing:ifdown eth0, ifup wlan0) it states something like: wlan0, no such device on asking for a iwconfig I get: IEEE 802.11b+ ESSID:"THUIS" Nickname:"acx100 v0.2.0pre8.34" Mode:Managed Channel:7 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate=22Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=187/0 Retry min limit:7 RTS thr: off Encryption key: off Power Management: off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 dBm Noise level:0 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 the Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 dBm Noise level:0 dBm bothers me... I also read that that might all be because my Acces Point is set to not 'broadcast' it's SSID, but actually, it is set so that it does... Maybe it is relevant, but my Wlan is protected by a WEP 128bit ASCII key Its quite frustrating me at the moment... Any advice?
Can't offer any specific help, but turning off the encryption might make things easier (keep it simple & stupid)
Even if it is encrypted, it still has to show in the list when I scan... I can't connect to it without the key, but still, it has to be visible... I think the problem is located on this side of the "wire" ie. the laptop
Have you tried searching the Ubuntu forums. I've had similar problems with my wireless card. Find out what chipset your card uses, this will help finding out how to get it working. The most arkward thing that could happen is that you have to use ndiswrapper, alond with the WinXP driver. Good luck! Wireless is a bitch in Linux but it is very possible. And Unbuntu Rules!
In ubuntu, here's what I did: (roughly) Downloaded ndiswrapper 1.1 source made it into a .deb dpkg'd the deb told it where my .inf file was*SEE NOTE! did the ndiswrapper -m thing modprobe ndiswrapper ndiswrapper -l just to check things out (lower case "L") added ndiswrapper to the bottom of /etc/modules Then, after all that, I rebooted, and double-clicked the network activity icon in the top right corner. (using default gnome setup) Then I clicked 'configure' typed in my administrative password, and clicked on the wireless device. I went to properties, and checked "this device is configured" and typed in my network SSID and WEP Key, left it at DHCP, clicked OK and waited for like a full minute or two, then selected wireless device from the previous menu again and clicked "activate" waited for a while.... clicked "OK" (do not use the X!) and waited for a while again rebooted and all was well! (second reboot shouldn't be neccessary, but always good to reboot just in case) NOTES: When telling ndiswrapper where the .inf file is, keep in mind ndiswrapper needs ALL of the driver files. For my device, that was like 15 files, only one of which was an .inf file. So just unpack the entire folder containing your .inf file for your wireless adapter into a folder... say ~/windows_drivers/wireless/ then ndiswrapper -i ~/windows_drivers/wireless/your.inf Also, Ubuntu comes with ndiswrapper, but for some reason it never worked for me. It says the wireless device is there and the driver is there, and they are all happy, but it just doesn't work, so recompiling worked like a champ. Definitely use ubuntuforums.org and these two guides: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SetupNdiswrapperHowto https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WiFiHowto hope that helps! And yes, Ubuntu rocks!
I know it's not really much help, but I just wanted to say thanks for posting the link to the guide, I just got my DWL-650+ working on my FC4 laptop. I'm using a D-Link access point too. Have you ever had any problems finding the network before? I would check all the editable settings in the start_net script, the ALG value and preamble settings were preventing mine from working to start with.
