Okay, so I installed Ubuntu on a laptop. Now, my wi-fi finder thingie doesn't work. Help?!
Okay, so I installed Ubuntu on a laptop. Now, my wi-fi finder thingie doesn't work. Help?!
Josh
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Is it an ancient laptop? Might be you have to do a little work to get it going.
Check the ubuntu user forums (here). The search function there is quite good at finding answers to this kind of question.
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That happened to me at first too. Have you tried restarting?
Austin Williamson
Electrical engineering student at Texas State University
Member of Church of the Cross (PCA)
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Let us, then, as we would show ourselves to be godly, keep close to the rule of worship, and in the things of Jehovah go no further than we can say, 'It is written'.
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Doesn't work in Windows or Ubuntu?
Jonathan, A.A.S.
Audio Engineer
Reformed Baptist
Ohio
It's not that ancient. A few years. It's a Compaq Presario V5000. As for the ubuntu forums, well, everyone speaks in languages I'm unable to comprehend. I was hoping someone here could help a dummy out.
No. I'll try that now, I guess.
Skyler, I simply replaced Windows altogether with Ubuntu.
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How absurd a tenet is this, which holdeth that there is some particular worship of God allowed, and not commanded? What new light is this which maketh all our divines to have been in the mist, who have acknowledged no worship of God, but that which God hath commanded? Who ever heard of commanded and allowed worship? - George Gillespie
The fact sheet I found for it says WiFi is "optional". That puts it squarely in the "ancient" category.
Which version of Ubuntu are you using?
Do you see a "Wifi Radar" program in the programs list anywhere?
Jonathan, A.A.S.
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Josh
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How absurd a tenet is this, which holdeth that there is some particular worship of God allowed, and not commanded? What new light is this which maketh all our divines to have been in the mist, who have acknowledged no worship of God, but that which God hath commanded? Who ever heard of commanded and allowed worship? - George Gillespie
one thing that works for me is plugging it in to a wired connection and then going to a terminal and doing a sudo apt-get update followed by sudo apt-get upgrade then go to the 'start bar' and find something that says hardware. That is the important step. When that is open you will probably have to pick the latest hardware stuff for your wifi card and click activate. After a reboot you should be good to go.
pm me if you have questions. take a screen shot and send it to me after you find 'hardware' which i think is under 'system'. I am not in ubuntu right now so I can't remember for certain
Matt
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Reformed
Wisconsin
Josh
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How absurd a tenet is this, which holdeth that there is some particular worship of God allowed, and not commanded? What new light is this which maketh all our divines to have been in the mist, who have acknowledged no worship of God, but that which God hath commanded? Who ever heard of commanded and allowed worship? - George Gillespie
go to your start bar then accessories i think then 'terminal' then type 'sudo apt-get update' followed by enter, then when it is done 'sudo apt-get upgrade' followed by enter
-----Added 10/26/2009 at 07:44:19 EST-----
you have to be connected to the internet to do what I just said in my last post through a hard wire to your router.
Matt
Lay
Reformed
Wisconsin
Joshua (10-26-2009)
Thanks for bearing with the dummy.![]()
Josh
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How absurd a tenet is this, which holdeth that there is some particular worship of God allowed, and not commanded? What new light is this which maketh all our divines to have been in the mist, who have acknowledged no worship of God, but that which God hath commanded? Who ever heard of commanded and allowed worship? - George Gillespie
Austin Williamson
Electrical engineering student at Texas State University
Member of Church of the Cross (PCA)
San Marcos, TX
Let us, then, as we would show ourselves to be godly, keep close to the rule of worship, and in the things of Jehovah go no further than we can say, 'It is written'.
~Rev. Thomas Watson, The Godly Man's Picture
oops, forgot to mention just hit 'y' enter if it asks you any questions. What those two things are doing is getting the latest patches and software for you operating system because ubuntu community releases all their updates free of charge and they are always working you may have to download a bunch. when that is all done go to the top left of the screen and click on 'system' -> 'administration' -> 'hardware drivers' then let me know the list of things with gray dots to the left of them
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I hate to say this but after you get your internet working I wouldn't do too much customization because in 3 days a new distribution of ubuntu is coming out and, although you can upgrade your existing version to it, you cannot take advantage of all the perks because they are changing a few major things like the way the files are stored on the disk and that feature is not upgradeable. Thus I would recommend in 3 days redownload and start over again since you are so close.![]()
Matt
Lay
Reformed
Wisconsin
It's still running... standby.
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How absurd a tenet is this, which holdeth that there is some particular worship of God allowed, and not commanded? What new light is this which maketh all our divines to have been in the mist, who have acknowledged no worship of God, but that which God hath commanded? Who ever heard of commanded and allowed worship? - George Gillespie
lol @ 2 examples of the five ways Linux shoots itself in the foot.
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This is a simple problem, easily overcome, and well worth the freedom from MS hassles.
Found the following on this forum, discussing your specific computer (found this forum quickly with a simple Google search): Linksys WUSB100 Wireless Adapter Working on Ubuntu 9.04 - Linux Forums
"Actually, the internal Broadcom 4318 is well supported in Linux using the b43 driver. The only thing that you have to do is install the proprietary firmware, then it will work. Fortunately Ubuntu makes this very easy, just make sure you have a wired internet connection, and run this command in the terminal.
Code: sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
It will ask: "Fetch and install firmware?". Answer "Yes" (press enter).
There may also be a true Linux driver or the USB wireless, if you're interested in pursuing it."
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Thanks, Matt. The trick worked. Posting from Ubuntu OS now.
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How absurd a tenet is this, which holdeth that there is some particular worship of God allowed, and not commanded? What new light is this which maketh all our divines to have been in the mist, who have acknowledged no worship of God, but that which God hath commanded? Who ever heard of commanded and allowed worship? - George Gillespie
I was afraid we'd lost you.
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