[penguicon-general] yet another Ubuntu question

[LadySarah]

Thanks!  I'll have to try that.  :)
Sarah

On 6/5/07, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/5/07, LadySarah <ladysarahmarie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I know in windows activating my wifi requires two steps; activating the
> > wireless and then actually making it function.  Does anyone know if
> Ubuntu
> > also has two steps??  I can't seem to get it to activate and the laptop
> > doesn't want to play with an ethernet cable in either platform.
> >
> > I tried setting everything up over the phone with John but he didn't
> have
> > Ubuntu in front of him and couldn't figure out a way to hack it from my
> > descriptions.  And also give John all the credit in the world because he
> > tried for over an hour to help me get something to play nice on my
> computer
> > and nothing ended up being willing to play.
>
> In the best of circumstances, Ubuntu will come with the driver and/or
> firmware for your wireless card and handle everything automatically.
> You'll get a little icon in the upper-right corner of the screen that
> vaguely resembled two computer monitors.  If you click on it, it will
> show the available wireless networks to connect to, along with signal
> strength, and any wired networks.  That little piece of software is
> called NetworkManager.  NetworkManager attempts to connect to the best
> interface available - if it detects an ethernet cable that's plugged
> in, it'll attempt to use that.  Otherwise, it will attempt to connect
> to the strongest wireless network.
>
> If that doesn't work out of the box, you've got hardware that's not
> well supported by Ubuntu.
>
> Crack open a terminal, become root (by typing in 'sudo su' without the
> ticks, and entering your password), and run lspci and lsusb and paste
> the output into a response.  That will give me some idea of what
> hardware you have, from which I can point you in the right direction.
>
> --tim
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