getting wireless to work on kubuntu

I've brought this thread up before, and several people recommended that I install Ubuntu and upgrade the GUI to KDE. I thought this would solve the problem, but it didn't. The wireless still isn't working. I'm wondering if the removal of Wireless Assistant 0.5.5 will fix the problem, but I doubt it.

 

What kind of wireless card do you have?

 

I'm using the Atheros AR5004G chipset. Linux has already installed the madwifi driver and it is working just fine. I suspect that the problem lies with the Wireless Assistant v0.5.5, as detailed in the following link:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/wlassistant/+bug/64841

 

Have you got the latest knetworkmanager/gnome-network-manager. I find those packages eliminate 99% of my wireless problems.

 

yeah, I would delete wireless assistant entirely. I would usually say that it's a good idea to only have one thing doing one function for these system-type controls

 

Unfortunately uninstalling Wireless Assistant 0.5.5 did not work. Any other suggestions?

 

Install knetworkmanager or network-manager-gnome. Trust me on this - the networkmanager packages are what you need. I fought and fought with my wireless, which hardware-wise was detecting and working, but I couldn't get it configured. Then I installed knetworkmanager, and my problems were solved.

knetworkmanager Just Works. Install it, run it, it puts an icon in your system tray, you right click on it, select a WAP, enter a key or passphrase if you have WEP/WPA, and boom, you're up.

 

I've been having problems with wireless too. Ill try knetworkmanager to see if it works.

 

I just got my laptop from repair (malfunctioning touchpad) and instead of reinstalling the driver they merged and formatted my HDD. Goodbye for now Kubuntu! I've spent too many hours troubleshooting this problem and it's just an OS so I'll wait a few releases; maybe with a bit of luck Kubuntu will be on a different level by then. Thanks for the help anyways guys.

 

I gave up with Linux on my current laptop, but I would suggest that the OS is just an OS. You don't have to use your operating system as some kind of super application if you don't want to. If Windows XP works, just leave it at that. No need to change or upgrade until you get whatever you get with your next computer (and there is always a next one).

You can still be as independent from commercial software as you want. Just about anything you can run on Linux you can also get in a Windows version anyway, whether it's OpenOffice, Mozilla products, etc., plus, there is also a growing collection of terrific free software for Windows, like Paint.Net, for example. There is nothing I can't do on my laptop, and except for the antivirus package I had already paid for, there is nothing on my computer that isn't freely available, either open source or freeware.

Programs I use regularly on my Windows XP laptop:
OpenOffice
Python 2.5
ACE Money Lite
Apache server, PHP, Perl, MySQL (I use these for local web development)
Ccleaner
PDF Creator
Paint.NET (runs on MS .NET framework 2.0)
IrfanView
Evernote
Filezilla
Notepad++
Realplayer and Quicktime Alternatives
NVU
Foxit Reader (instead of Adobe Reader, much smaller and faster)
Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird (plus Mozbackup)
Utilities like Pathcopy, and free Power Toys from MS, MS Calculator Plus, MS Visual Studio Express Editions of Visual BASIC and Visual Web Developer

Total cost: $0

And if you leave out any Windows-specific stuff, even if it's free, you can be totally cross-platform if you want to. It wasn't like that until fairly recently, but in my opinion, the actual OS we use is becoming more and more irrelevant. Me, I just want the full functionality my laptop was designed with. On OS that doesn't allow me to use my modem, or doesn't work properly with power management, or with wireless networking is useless to me. Linux is great, and I've used it on my desktops, but it has a way to go before it's a mainstream OS when you have to jump through hoops to get simple things to work - especially after all these years.

 

Can I run games like FFXI on linux? ^.^

 

maybe, maybe not...

http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/

 

Isn't that only for PS2? Anyways, as far as the wifi card goes, networkmanager tends to take care of a lot of configuration issues, did you ever try it? Waiting "a few releases" really is a terrible answer, configuration issues do crop up from time to time on linux-based PCs (but hey, it's better than trying to find drivers to work with xp x64 from a company that doesn't care to make them), it's much better to figure out how to fix them then to simply give up and hope someone else fixes it upstream. BTW, Fiesty afaik should have NetworkManager by default when it's released in april, and some other distros (Sabayon, for one) already do.

 

Yes, Feisty Ubuntu has network-manager-gnome and Kubuntu has knetworkmanager installed by default. I've tested and both run my Intel 3945 with WPA out of the box (and from live cd).

 

you ubuntu stud, you...

I think the worst part of using any Linux distro is waiting for all the cool stuff to come out in the next version...

 

Try this link http://www.personaltelco.net they are associated with http://www.freegeek.org freegeek uses ubuntu linux only.

 

LOL its just as bad as notebook tech. Well at least its free so you don't have to worry about getting one now.

 

Oh, and it has a nice little menu item to install all of the multimedia codecs.

 

Are you talking about the Ubuntu bata? (cant remember what its called) that must make it a little easier to set up. Though doesn't automatix2 do that for you? By the way why don't they make all of the files like the Automatix file? I mean you just click and it will install itself. I could definitely see Linux becoming a lot more popular if the files were that easy to install.

 

Well, there's an updated add/remove programs function, allowing you to install a lot of stuff that automatix does anyways. I didn't have any use for automatix with the Feisty Fawn betas, but it is definitely not for everyone, its unstable at the moment.