I dunno... you could load the knoppix cd again and use modprobe or something to tell you which kernel module (and version) was loaded that was playing nice with your wireless NIC. you should be able to use that one on other distros... if they don't have it available in apt-get or whatever package manager, you can build it from source. I would connect unecrypted in all of my tests and then enable WPA or whatever to figure out where the issue is.
also, you could try something like Linux Mint... which is basically just a modified Ubuntu with better restricted driver support... a lot of people have success with that one. ________________________________ From: Jarred White <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, December 1, 2010 2:02:16 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] need help, linux wireless Last I checked, Atheros chipsets were tricky - but this was some time ago. When I used Ubuntu last, it had no problems recognizing everything and connecting to the AP. Is the AP you're connecting to using WPA? There may be some additional steps/configuration you need to take in order to get WPA working properly. On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Hot Rod <[email protected]> wrote: Hello from Shreveport, > >I have been trying to get my wireless to work on my laptop(toshiba satellite >c655-s5049), for the last 6 months. I have tried all the major distros, >ubuntu, >fedora, opensuse, etc., they all do the same. It shows my wireless working >(atheros 9825) and to be connected but, when i open firefox it says no >connection. So, recently I ran knoppix 6.2 and my wireless works with no >problems ! I would like to get it working on the other distros. There are no >linux groups or gurus in my area. Does anyone have any ideas ? Thanks for any >help. > >Jimmy > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -- "The world's my oyster, a hotel room's my prison cell..."
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