Linux Wireless networking in Ubuntu

I recently installed Ubuntu on a fresh drive, and after trying for hours on end, cannot connect to my wireless network. I've made sure all of my settings are exactly the same as my windows settings. The only thing that i can come up with is that I might need to install the drivers for my wireless card. Being new to Linux, I don't know where to do that, or if I even need to. When I put all the settings in, the wireless connection has zero bars of signal where I had full bars before. But when I run Firefox, it says that it cannot find the network. Any suggestions?

 

Can you post the output of

Code:

sudo ifconfig
sudo iwconfig

 

if config
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10C:AC0:06
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:19 Base address:0xa000

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:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5904 (5.7 KB) TX bytes:5904 (5.7 KB)


iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSIDff/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid
RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-256 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


I checked the troubleshooting guide and found out that there is a driver installed for it. It also says that the wireless adapter if turned off, even though I have wireless networking enabled. It doesn't explain how to turn the adapter on. Thanks for your help.

 

https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/internet/C/ndiswrapper.html


When it says obtain, if you just stick the driver disk in and then point to that to install the drivers from.

Also is your network secured with WEP (please god no) or WPA?

I dont know which version you are using, but I dont think up to 7.10s network manager supports WPA by default, so you will have to set that up, and I cant remember how.

Either that or google WICD, its a good network manager and supports WPA right away, you can install it by copying over the link to it into software sources, then installing it from synaptic package manager.

Hope that helps/is what you are looking for.

 

I'm using version 7.10, and the driver is already installed, but thanks for the tip in future.