[Discuss] Questions

[R. Langkamer]

On 11/3/07 4:27 PM, Murray Strome wrote:

> Do you know any website that will give clear instructions on how to get 
> wireless to work with Kubuntu? It appears to detect my wireless card OK, 
> but nothing I do seems to enable it to connect to my Firewall/router.  
> Of course, it works fine if I attach an Ethernet cable. I probably just 
> don't understand how to set it up.  I put in the SSID and the 10 hex 
> digit WEP code that I use for Windows, but that doesn't seem to work. 
> There does not appear to be anything like what is available in Windows 
> that shows all the Wireless nets within range.
> 
> I did ask this before on the list, but never received any replies, so 
> thought I would try again.


	I had/have the misfortune of having a PCI wifi card that was/is 
unsupported by Ubuntu. That said, this was with the earlier versions and 
I have not taken the time to try again. Now that the newest Ubuntu is 
free in the wild, I should try again.

	First thing to try is set the wifi router to no security and see if you 
can connect then. If so, you now know it has something to do with 
authentication. If you still can not connect, then this likely points to 
unsupported hardware and an intense session of Googleing should follow. 
You will need to know what chipset your wifi device is using in order to 
find out if it can be made to work or not.

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