Drewsephine
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grrrAhoy Linux (Ubuntu) Experts
More help please
Im having major snags with this.
2 weeks ago I installed Ubuntu 9.10 onto my laptop and all was well with the world.
Since yesterday its been playing sily beggars and now wont connect to tinterweb. I dont know why. It will not see my wireless network for some reason yet sees loads of others. It works when connected by a wire but that defeats the point of wireless networking. Having said this, I re-installed from scratch and it saw the network, saved it as its auto configuration and then when I tried to start Firefox, decided it didn't like it anymore and binned it again.
Please help as I am in danger of seeing how well a laptop flies at some point very soon
Ta in advance
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Chez
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Can you delete *all* the wireless settings so that it starts looking again from scratch? Try that first.
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Drewsephine
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its still not playing.
im gonna sulk
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Chez
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Right. Switch the modem off. Remove the string from the back of the computer. THEN delete all the wireless connections. Then reboot. Then put the modem back on. And see what happens.
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Drewsephine
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Resetting the modem works until the next time I try to connect to tinterweb then it nobs out again.
Laptop is well on its way to getting float tested
grr
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Chez
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That's about the limit of my expertise ...
Can you tick 'connect automatically' that first time you log on, before The Nobbing?
Is the modem password protected?
If so, does it make any difference if you UNpassword-protect?
Do other machines in the house see the wireless modem?
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MarkS
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network manager ! AAAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!
Try the ubuntu support forums. When they first switched from wpa_supplicant and hid everything behind the heap of @£$% that is network manager app I had loads of problems. I did eventually get it sorted but I'm afraid I cant remember how.
Can you give us a run down of the wireless settings or the router?
Ideally you want wpa2.
security? WEP/WPA/WPA2
encryption? TKIP / AES
broadcasting name?
It does initially connect OK then drop? Is it attempting to connect to a different one?
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Drewsephine
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It intially connects ok when I have reset the router.
After that it doesn't even see my network anymore.
All my other goodies see the network fine
security is WPA 2
cipher type is on auto
SSID is set to broadcast
I just dont get why (a) it worked fine for 2 weeks then stopped for no reason (b) everything else on my network sees the router fine but this won't even with a completely fresh install
grrr
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vegplot
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I appreciate and applaud the effort of the Open Source community the amount of energy expended by the end user to have a viable working robust system seems to be extraordinary. I have to admire the tenacity and persistence of the evangelists but it seems an awfully long and rock strewn path.
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Drewsephine
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it does but when it works, its lovely.
its quick, easy to use (when set up correctly), aesthetically pleasing
and less resource intensive than most systems
I like it, just wish it was easier to set up
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Treacodactyl
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| vegplot wrote: | | I appreciate and applaud the effort of the Open Source community the amount of energy expended by the end user to have a viable working robust system seems to be extraordinary. I have to admire the tenacity and persistence of the evangelists but it seems an awfully long and rock strewn path. |
I've just done a re-install of Windows XP for someone who's hard disk died. The initial install couldn't even see the inbuilt network card and when I went through the driver install (luckily the owner had kept the large pile of various installation and driver disks) and followed the instructions that didn't work either. Due to my evangelical tenacity and persistence  I managed to get it working.
I have no desire to get wireless networking to work on Ubuntu though, it took ages to get it to work on another friends machine. 
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