wireless question
Category: Ubuntu-Absolute Beginner
wireless question
i've been trying to get my wireless connection to work for while now, but with no sucess. i have a cnet cwp-854 pci card and i can see ra0 under the network manager, however, when i configure it and active it, ubuntu simply won't boot next time and i end up having to re-install everything. also, i don't know what my chipset is. when i type lspci -n | less, i get the following output:
code:
0000:00:0a.0 network controller: ralink: unknown device 0301
subsytem: ralink: unknown device 2561however, when i type iwconfig, after ra0 appears rt61. i'm not sure if this is just the driver that comes with ubuntu, or the chipset of my card. to make things even more complicated, i don't have a ethernet connection, so i have to keep switching from ubuntu to xp. however, i'm determined to get it to work, so please, could someone help me out?
if someone could help me out. my thread kinda slipped out of the 1st page. bump.
anyone?
have you tried configuring manually with iwconfig?
not sure, whether that wouldn't have the same error as the network manager though...
also i am using wicd as a network manager, which works a lot better for me. maybe you want to try it out?
again, no guarantee, though..
sorry if you've tried all this already..
hum, no i haven't. could you please link me to it? just keep in mind that i don't have a ethernet connection so it can't have lots of deps, just build-essential preferably.
well, don't think it needed a lot of .dev , but you do need wpa supplicant and such..
quote:
wicd requires python, python-gtk2, python-dbus (edgy) or python2.4-dbus (dapper), wpasupplicant, and python-glade2.
these will be installed automatically when you install wicd, so there is no need for you to download these manually.
the webiste is:
http://compwiz18.blackhole.cx/wicd/wb/
and am not sure about the "automatic installation" but i don't think many can install a network manager and still be connected... at least i couldn't.
well i tried it, it installed, but when i clicked wicd under applications -> internet -> wicd it just didn't ran. i'll try to find another network manager.
i got it to work. i'm in dapper right now! i'm soo happy. thanks. i'm using gtk wifi manager.