I had the exact same problem! All you have to do is connect to your routed, do the updates and your wireless!
On Feb 18, 2:43 pm, Adam Yee <[email protected]> wrote: > Forgive me for a lack of a tech vocabulary. I have: a laptop, dual > booting with XP and Intrepid, and connecting to a router wirelessly. > > My wireless connection is unable to connect to my modem/router (ATT > 2WIRE) thingy. Just last night it could, booting it up during lunch > it could not. Last night before shutdown, I did not install the 7 > updates (2 security and 5 recommended). Wondering if this has > anything to do with it. I have other networks around my apt. of which > some are unprotected. I am unable to connect to those as well. My > network monitor on the panel shows no signal strength on device wlan0. > > I can connect with Windows. > > My router's wireless LED is not lit up when in Ubuntu (8.10), but is > when running XP. The wireless device on my laptop is on. I've done a > look through with the configurations and properties and what not, but > I just can't seem to figure out how to fix this. > > I'm a new user to Linux and Ubuntu and I'm still learning terminal > commands and workarounds. I'm sure I've left out a lot of info, but > if you ask I can get it to you. Any pointers would be greatly > appreciated. Thank you! > > Also, would anyone recommend installing the latest driver > @http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
