Hey folks,
With luck this will prove to be a short-lived problems, as I plan to
upgrade to Ubuntu Gutsy when it comes out in a few weeks, but in the
mean time...
I received my brand new Dell laptop yesterday. With glee, I took the
preloaded Vista install out back, told it about the rabbits, and had
an Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty installation up and running in short order. The
Feisty install is meant to be a placeholder until the next release.
Everything that I care about is up and working without problems,
except my wireless.
I have an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG PCI card, which is shown in lspci.
paterson@bilbo:~$ lsmod | grep 3945
ipw3945 118816 1
ieee80211 34760 1 ipw3945
At work, and at home, I have been successful in connecting to a WEP
secured wireless network, but signal strength drops to 0%, and I have
an address of 0.0.0.0, broadcast is 0.0.0.0, network mask, default
route, DNS are all 0.0.0.0
paterson@bilbo:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 unassociated ESSID:"Wireless1"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:16:C8:66:7D:50
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:378 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:201 Missed beacon:0
Googling has yielded little except to tell me many suffer the same
problem, and many have no issues at all. Does anyone here have any
wisdom to impart?
Thanks.
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