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no wirelles connection on network settings

Asked by vcolo

I have a linksys wusb54gc. It already worked in this computer. I messed with sinaptic package manager, and now I don't have wireless anymore. I'm not Linux expert. Help me please.

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Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin) said : 		#1

Try "iwconfig" in the terminal, what does it say?

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vcolo (vcolo) said : 		#2

Vladim

I reinstalled Ubuntu. It's working now. But I have the same problem since I started using wireless.

Sometimes takes 15 minutes. Sometimes takes 20 hours. But the wireless goes out. It says my connection = 0%. At this point, I have to reboot the computer. Yesterday I messed with the sinaptic package trying to find something that makes the connection stable.

Now, that I have teh connection on, my ifconfig says:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:60:AC:51:EA
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:94 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:176 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:17433 (17.0 KB) TX bytes:27359 (26.7 KB)
          Interrupt:16

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2983 (2.9 KB) TX bytes:2983 (2.9 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:7E:04:A2:D4
          inet addr:192.168.1.104 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21d:7eff:fe04:a2d4/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:375 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:219463 (214.3 KB) TX bytes:55620 (54.3 KB)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1D-7E-04-A2-D4-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Thank you for your help

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aznmhc (mhc7791) said : 		#3

Wireless doesn't work on Ubuntu. Just get Mac OS X.

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Best Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin) said : 		#4

Wireless works perfectly for me, thankyouverumuch, and it's illegal to run Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware. So this clearly is not a solution.

Try this: don't have the card plugged in/enabled until after you log on. When the connection drops to 0, unplug/remove the card and put it back in, don't restart.

If that doesn't help, look at this thread (should work for 7.10 still): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=516649

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vcolo (vcolo) said : 		#5

I followed the forum's instructions. After that, the system asked for some updates and I changed the wireless connection from Roaming to DHCP.

It is working very well since that. The connection didn't drop anymore.

Thnak you for the help.

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vcolo (vcolo) said : 		#6

Thanks Vadim Peretokin, that solved my question.