Need Help with Wireless Networking on a New Install of Ubuntu 11.04

[Lisa Kachold]

Hi Mark,

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:

> I thought i would give ubuntu a try for a new laptop install. It all works,
> except wireless networking. My main frustration is adding/deleting/editing
> network connections through the network gui: changes to connections are not
> kept when I click save, new connections don't appear in the dropdown from
> the taskbar, and old connections remain in the drop down from the task bar
> after then are deleted from the networking gui. I have tried rebooting, and
> still connections remain that have been deleted and new ones don't shoe up.
> I also tried editing a connection, (removing the password for WPA Personal),
> and I still get a popup asking for authentication, but no way to enter it
> into the dialog...the wireless security drop down is grayed out. Finally,
> when I tried /etc/init.d/networking stop/start, I get a message about using
> services networking start, but that command gives an error "rejected send
> message"....when I tried service networking stop I get the error stop:
> Unknown instance. I am a long time user of Debian, and I thought Ubuntu was
> supposed to be the easier/friendlier dialect......
>
> My apologies for a long rant....my question
>
> Short of a complete system re-install, how do I get the networking gui
> working, or better yet, how do I clean out the old connections that don't
> work and start fresh with setting up the wireless from the command line?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>
If you can bring it over to Maker Bench in Tempe 3-6 PM, I can look at it
(after the presentation).

2010 E. University Drive
Tempe

Between S. Smith Rd and McClintock

http://www.makerbench.com/about/

Some things to try:

Be sure your sense key hardware button is on.

dmesg - verify your wireless device

You will see an error about your device driver and instructions to fix if
required.

If you are using the little Wireless icon tool, right click on the upper
right hand corner (depending on your distro) and you will be able to edit
connections.  There is a tiny place to click to add your options also.

iwconfig -a
ifconfig -a


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