Thanks for responses, I have a broadcom wireless in my note book and no wifi radar. Windows is reporting a constantly fluctuating signal on its gui giving a signal of 2 to three bars (5 is max) Ubuntu wireless network "sees" the connection but will not connect once I enter the wep key. My guess is that the signal is too week to connect with as I usually can connect with out any effort. Regards John ----- Original Message Follows -----
Is this with or without wifi-radar - I've had mixed results without wifi-radar (not sure whether it's the wireless card or not).
Cheers.
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:14:34PM +1200, Simon Green
wrote: On 07/07/07, jaytee(a)clear.net.nz
<jaytee(a)clear.net.nz> wrote: My landlord has agreed to share his wireless connection (for a fee) with me and has provided me with the password. If I boot into windows, add the password it all works but with Ubuntu I cannot get a connection. so far I tried ascii and hexadecimal but no connection i have the networking set to dchp the router address is 192.168.1.254 do I need to turn off dchp and use a fixed address? Or is there some other thing I may have missed?
Ubuntu 7.04 has zero-conf wireless (and wired) networking. You should be able to click the icon in your panel, type in the key, and away you go. This is assuming your wireless card is supported in Ubuntu (most cards should be though). -- simon
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I had very similar symptoms with Broadcom. On my Broadcom I have to issue the following command to connect once the machine has booted. sudo iwlist eth1 scanning (where eth1 is your card ID). Not sure why this does it but works for me... Ian On 7/8/07, jaytee(a)clear.net.nz <jaytee(a)clear.net.nz> wrote:
Thanks for responses, I have a broadcom wireless in my note book and no wifi radar. Windows is reporting a constantly fluctuating signal on its gui giving a signal of 2 to three bars (5 is max) Ubuntu wireless network "sees" the connection but will not connect once I enter the wep key. My guess is that the signal is too week to connect with as I usually can connect with out any effort. Regards John
----- Original Message Follows -----
Is this with or without wifi-radar - I've had mixed results without wifi-radar (not sure whether it's the wireless card or not).
Cheers.
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:14:34PM +1200, Simon Green
wrote: On 07/07/07, jaytee(a)clear.net.nz
<jaytee(a)clear.net.nz> wrote: My landlord has agreed to share his wireless connection (for a fee) with me and has provided me with the password. If I boot into windows, add the password it all works but with Ubuntu I cannot get a connection. so far I tried ascii and hexadecimal but no connection i have the networking set to dchp the router address is 192.168.1.254 do I need to turn off dchp and use a fixed address? Or is there some other thing I may have missed?
Ubuntu 7.04 has zero-conf wireless (and wired) networking. You should be able to click the icon in your panel, type in the key, and away you go. This is assuming your wireless card is supported in Ubuntu (most cards should be though). -- simon
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