Bought my friend a Sony Vaio VPCEG to replace the failing Toshiba Satellite. She was working on the Toshiba (connected to the 'Net via the wireless AP here) while I installed xubuntu-11.10 without networking on the Sony. Now I want to configure networking and get it working upon boot/login, but I'm not having any success.
As you well know, I don't know the Debian-based distributions such as the ubuntus. I try 'iwconfig wlan0' but that does not bring it up; ifconfig -a shows no network RUNNING. I've left /etc/networks/interfaces as the installation default because that's the way it appears in the working laptop. Same with /etc/host* and /etc/networking. I've also looked at the ubuntu wiki pages found with Google searches, but haven't seen what I need. I'm really at a loss on what to do. If it was Slackware I'd be able to fix everything, but the laptop does not see any wireless networks while the old one sees ours as well as a half-dozen in the neighborhood. I'd appreciate guidance and directions to get this working this week; as a last resort, I'll bring it to Sunday's clinic for help from all the experts there. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
