Kubuntu 8.10 WIFI HELP NEEDED

sn3rd said:
Your adapter doesn't seem to be detected. Are you able to find your adapter in the output of
Code: 
lspci
?

What adapter are you using? Is it the one in your One ?
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I see the adapter when I lspci

And yeah - its the AAO - it was working the other day until I went and fiddled with something in order to use the ethernet (instead of the wireless).
 
Does your adapter show up in
Code: 
ifconfig
?

What is the output of
Code: 
iwconfig
?
 
bwana said:
No

no wireless extensions
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Your adapter may indeed simply be disabled... Try
Code: 
iwconfig wlan0 up
(or if you know that your adapter had a different alias, use that instead of wlan0).

Then
Code: 
iwconfig
again.
 
I tried wlan0 and ath0 but both returned "no such device".
 
bwana said:
I get the messages:

lo interface doesn't support scanning
eth0 interface doesn't support scanning
pan0 interface doesn't support scanning

I've got a suspicion that the card is just disabled - how would I enable it?
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Just check my post to jsheed_sa about the interfaces and the # commenting.
 
jsheed_sa said:
Will let you know if it works fr00t master :P Will be switching to linux on my desktop (kubuntu) providing I can get cedega/wine to play warcraft3 (dota) properly... Its the only reason I keep windows.

J
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I play Dota with Wine. It works 99%. Now and then (old versions of Wine at least) it crashed or the sound disappeard. But haven't noticed it recently.
 
froot said:
I play Dota with Wine. It works 99%. Now and then (old versions of Wine at least) it crashed or the sound disappeard. But haven't noticed it recently.
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Hmmm. Got a walkthrough for that? Most ones i've seen or tried require an ethical version of warcraft 3. cough...

J
 
jsheed_sa said:
Hmmm. Got a walkthrough for that? Most ones i've seen or tried require an ethical version of warcraft 3. cough...

J
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And? I installed it on Windows quite some time ago, kept the installed directory, got myself a nocd crack. Went to Linux and right-clicked on w3.exe and selected open with Wine.
 
Try the following (it worked for my eth0 once). Go to System->Preferences->Network config. See if your adapter is there. If it is, you can enable it from there too.
 
froot said:
Try the following (it worked for my eth0 once). Go to System->Preferences->Network config. See if your adapter is there. If it is, you can enable it from there too.
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That opens up a window called Network connections with various tabs (Wired, Wireless, Mobile Broadband, VPN and DSL). There's no section for adaptors though.

When I look under System>Admin>Network tools I dont see the wifi device listed
 
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That is what it's supposed to give.
Do you have a connection specified under wifi there? It could be a simple DHCP connection.
 
froot said:
That is what it's supposed to give.
Do you have a connection specified under wifi there? It could be a simple DHCP connection.
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Yes - it says it was last used 3 days ago
 
Can you try and reset the settings inside? Try creating a new one.
 
Ooh. That's a bummer. Try downloading WifiRadar (I think it's what it's called) from Synaptic. It helped me sort out the issues I had with my wireless once.
 
Is there a way to toggle the wireless adapter on and off (besides the physical switch)?
 
Just via the Network Config program and with ifup and ifdown. It's all that's usually necessary. Otherwise the interfaces file usually suffices, but you've been down those routes.
 
I think I reinstalled the driver by following the emboldened section below (as taken from http://tinyurl.com/56ep4x)

Code: 
wget http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
tar -xzf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz
[B]cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6*/
make
sudo make install
modprobe ath_pci[/B]

Seems to have done the trick - thanks everyone for your kind assistance. :)
 
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