I just installed watt os R2 on an old Dell Inspiron 1501, and i have a router perfectly running at my home without any password or anything. My Acer running win 7 have no problem conneckting to it. But watt os says in the Wicd Network Manager: No wireless networks found ? Before watt os i was running Jolicloud 1,1 on the Dell, and it connected just fine on the network ?
Can anyone help me ?
Hi Simon
You might need to adjust wicd to see your wireless device.
Open up wicd and click on preferences.
Then you will see the network interfaces. The default is wlan0 for wireless and eth0 for wired. You might need to change the wireless interface to eth1, or something else.
You can run the ifconfig command in a terminal to see what your network interfaces are called (In this case specificially your wireless) and see if its called wlan0 or eth1 and change it accordingly in wicd under the preferences.
See if that helps.
tks,
biff
Nope...just type in the command lspci in the terminal and copy the output in your response.
Additionally, if that laptop is running a broadcom wireless device, it may require a proprietary driver. wattOS has a tool to try to do this. Simply click on the lightbulb then click on-Preferences-Hardware Drivers. It should scan the system for any proprietary devices that it can install a driver for.
Hi - So yes there is a broadcom wireless card which requires a proprietary driver.
The easy path is to try the driver install tool included in wattOS to see if it detects it. Screen shot below shows where it is located. (click on hardware drivers). Then see if it detects the wireless card and should download and install the drvier for you (via wired connection).
Hi - so the third party driver tool did not list any? (Jockey)
also kind of a catch 22, can you connect via wired and let it connect as when you launch it, it will download updated packages and index...mmmm
If not, can you throw your lspci up here?
tks....biff
Hi Cafe Ray - if you can get wired Internet - run the following command..
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
Then try the hardware driver tool and see if you can activate/install drivers. Reboot and see if it works.
The BCM43x series does have some series in there that are a little tougher than others. The AirForce One being one of them (4318).
tks,
biff
Ok, sorry, but now i have a problem too. I installed wattosr3 and couldn't get the wireless to work, and then i tried wlan0 and got it to work. I did a search for additional drivers and started to install the nvidia 173 driver to make my graphics a little faster, and half way through it quit. Come to find out i wasn't on the internet. I finally installed linux mint, but when i tried to get on the internet it said device not ready. So i reinstalled wattosr3 in hopes that i can resolve the issue here. I ran the lspci command and it looks like i have an atheros ar5001 wireless network adapter. At the moment i am plugged into the ethernet cable, but i really need the wireless. Can anybody help?
@Biff No, i can't seem to figure it out. I connected the ethernet cable and downloaded the nvidia accelerated graphics driver (current version) and my antspotlight in the screensaver is running like the wind. I also posted a lot of information in the wattos3 forum under " wireless AWOL" But i can post here too. So what's next?
sageowl@sageowl-CQ60:~$ iwconfiglo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off sageowl@sageowl-CQ60:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up[sudo] password for sageowl: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-killsageowl@sageowl-CQ60:~$ rfkill unblock allCan't open RFKILL control device: Permission deniedsageowl@sageowl-CQ60:~$ rfkill list0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no Ok i think i'm on to something here. I tried sudo ifconfig wlan0 up but not possible due to rfkill. Then i tried rfkill unblock all but permission was denied. I think i'm soooo close. Can anybody help?
Randy,
Below is a link to an ubuntu forum that has a couple of users that had some success making it work. (go all the way to the bottom - read last two postings).
http://georgia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1484924
It does appear that the atheros chipset is wonky a bit with the last two ubuntu builds...not sure.
biff
Woohoo i got the wireless working. This is how i did it. I decided to install a distro with a gnome desktop so i could make sure the wireless was enabled. Then i went to the terminal and typed rfkill unblock all. Nothing seemed to happen. Then i typed rfkill list and found soft block no Hard block no. So i rebooted and wala i had wireless. For some reason the lxde desktop wouldn't give me permission to unblock anything. I think i'm going to stick with the gnome desktops. They're just soooo much easier for beginners like me. I want to thank Biff and everyone that was trying to help. I was getting ready to take my computer to the pawn shop. Hopefully this can help somebody with the same type of problems.
biff baxter said:
Hi Simon
You might need to adjust wicd to see your wireless device.
Open up wicd and click on preferences.
Then you will see the network interfaces. The default is wlan0 for wireless and eth0 for wired. You might need to change the wireless interface to eth1, or something else.
You can run the ifconfig command in a terminal to see what your network interfaces are called (In this case specificially your wireless) and see if its called wlan0 or eth1 and change it accordingly in wicd under the preferences.
See if that helps.
tks,
biff
This worked for me on a LG LW65 express with a intel wireless 2200bg card. Thanks!