Wireless dont work for Mint 9 and Presario CQ61

I installed Mint 9 and i cannot get the wireless card to work. It did work Once, then i upgraded the video card and rebooted. I haven't seen my wireless since.

I set up a new connection and hit the SCAN button and selected my router from the list of active connections it found. Under WEP i typed in the password number listed on the back of my router as i would for this laptop if i were using Windows. I hit apply and o.k. It worked once then when i rebooted, all the info is still there but the connection does not work.

I previously had Ubuntu 10.10 installed and it worked fine right out of the box, so i assume it's something simple?

Please try to help. Here is some data you may need:

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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 168c:002b (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"2WIRE270"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr ff Fragment thr ff
Encryption key ff
Power Management n

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c8:0a:a9:56:2f:48
inet addr:192.168.1.66 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::ca0a:a9ff:fe56:2f48/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:13383 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10290 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:13326719 (13.3 MB) TX bytes:1393299 (1.3 MB)
Interrupt:27 Base address:0x6000

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:230 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:230 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:15220 (15.2 KB) TX bytes:15220 (15.2 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/wlan0/78:e4:00:05:71:ad
Sending on LPF/wlan0/78:e4:00:05:71:ad
Listening on LPF/eth0/c8:0a:a9:56:2f:48
Sending on LPF/eth0/c8:0a:a9:56:2f:48
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.66 from 192.168.1.254
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.66 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPACK of 192.168.1.66 from 192.168.1.254
bound to 192.168.1.66 -- renewal in 33749 seconds.
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.1.254
Address: 192.168.1.254#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.45.103
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.45.106
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.45.105
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.45.147
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.45.104
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.45.99
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Network: Card-1 Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver ath9k
Card-2 Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver r8169

 

Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated

That's looking like the problem.

Are you using network manager? Try reconnecting, and if that doesn't get you associated, try redoing your wireless network connection, delete it from the networks list and start again.

 

I have deleted it and remade the connection several times with no joy. I am using KDE Control Module at the bottom right in the task bar.

Edit: I got it to work again.. but it may not stay passed a reboot. i will test this.. But.. How i got it to work was it tried to activate.. thinks for a while then pops up the windows with the wep connection settings and password. i noticed that the password it had was wrong ( I had just remade a new connection and i know i typed it in right) It was a longer strange password. i erased that and retyped my router password. Then it connected.

that was odd. i will try to reboot and see if it still remembers my correct password.

 

Those 2wire APs can be a serious headache sometimes.

Depending on the model you may have a button you can press to authenticate the client. Try connecting from your laptop, don't enter any details, and press the WPS button (should have a lock icon or something) on the router, and then it should connect.

If you don't have a button make sure you are entering the right key, and try it a few times. It can be finicky on Ubuntu-derived distros, I'm not sure why. I haven't had a problem on Debian but I have on Ubuntu.

 

Thanks. i don't know if you saw my edit above before you posted. I rebooted and so far i still have a working connection. Hopefully it will stay.

 

Exactly. I have no idea what that bug is, I've hit that before too, never on Debian though. Hope it stays working..