So, I'm new to Linux.
This has probably been answered elsewhere, or at least complained about elsewhere but not resolved.
I've been trying to get Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mepis, and all sorts of distros to work with wireless with absolutely no success.
I'm using a 2 year old sony vaio laptop, with an Intel Wifi Link 4965 AGN card.
The drivers is installed, up to date, the device is detected, enabled, etc.
In fact, there are even times when I can inexplicably connect.
In Ubuntu 8, the problem I was having is whenever I'd enter the WPA-PSK key, it'd come back with the password dialog over and over, each time with the key changed to a long string of ostensibly random letters & numbers. In Kubuntu 9, it connects and the widget says xxxConnected to (SSID) . . . But then it keeps popping back up with the window prompting me to enter the key.
Sometimes it'll just randomly connect, without me even doing anything. I'll have internet for a while. Then, also randomly, it'll drop the connection and I wont be able to reconnect even after several reboots, reinstallations, messing with the network-manager config file, etc.
I don't know anything about linux, but when I type "sudo lshw -class network" it shows my card, but says Capabilities: <access denied> and the logical name is wmaster0 (however if I type "lshw -class network" after running it with sudo the first time, the access denied message disappears). When i type iwconfig, the device shows up under wlan0 and nothing appears under wmaster0. Don't know what that means at all, but that doesn't seem right to me.
All of this is compounded with constant daemon, widget, and application crashes.
I'm almost tempted to go back to windows, but I'm of the opinion that if I can pull through this BS i'll be better off in the end.
This has probably been answered elsewhere, or at least complained about elsewhere but not resolved.
I've been trying to get Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mepis, and all sorts of distros to work with wireless with absolutely no success.
I'm using a 2 year old sony vaio laptop, with an Intel Wifi Link 4965 AGN card.
The drivers is installed, up to date, the device is detected, enabled, etc.
In fact, there are even times when I can inexplicably connect.
In Ubuntu 8, the problem I was having is whenever I'd enter the WPA-PSK key, it'd come back with the password dialog over and over, each time with the key changed to a long string of ostensibly random letters & numbers. In Kubuntu 9, it connects and the widget says xxxConnected to (SSID) . . . But then it keeps popping back up with the window prompting me to enter the key.
Sometimes it'll just randomly connect, without me even doing anything. I'll have internet for a while. Then, also randomly, it'll drop the connection and I wont be able to reconnect even after several reboots, reinstallations, messing with the network-manager config file, etc.
I don't know anything about linux, but when I type "sudo lshw -class network" it shows my card, but says Capabilities: <access denied> and the logical name is wmaster0 (however if I type "lshw -class network" after running it with sudo the first time, the access denied message disappears). When i type iwconfig, the device shows up under wlan0 and nothing appears under wmaster0. Don't know what that means at all, but that doesn't seem right to me.
All of this is compounded with constant daemon, widget, and application crashes.
I'm almost tempted to go back to windows, but I'm of the opinion that if I can pull through this BS i'll be better off in the end.
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