Me accessing my DataOne broad band wireless in my hardy(ubuntu 8.04). For the post two year Iam using Dataone.. But I was not sure whether the wireless port in my modem was Input port or Output port. I tried connecting my Lap after purching my Lap.  I didnt know exactly what mode to use in my admin setup page for accessing… I was randomly trying one after the other.. And got it at last.

My Interface Setup in my admin page is in PPoA/PPoE mode, with the username and pasword defined in the router setup page itself. And my Cute hardy scans for the Wireless Lan and connects automatically leaving me no work now a days. My Hardy is always cute, When my boot process is over Iam ready to surf my Net, provided my Dataone modem is ON.

Connecting Internet, Ubuntu DataOne, Ubuntu, wlan

Many laptops, that uses Intel board faces problems with Wlan. That is, most of the time when booted with Ubuntu 8.04 the Wlan will not be enabled and the WirelessLan switch in the laptops will not be of any use… More over the Wireless Lan leds will also be of no use. I faced the same problem and i happened to reboot my ubuntu severall times to get my wlan enabled.

I googled and had a chat in IRC and found it a bug with Ubuntu. Also found the solution as i was surfing. The solution to the above problem is making the WLAN led glow and making the WLAN switch work. For that install the package below using Synaptic or atp-get

linux-backports-modules-hardy

that is install like

~$ sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-hardy

Even if it doesnt work after this, install the Latest stable version of ndiswrapper from the link,

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ndiswrapper

Iam right now using my Dataone connection, in my Lap via wlan as my modem is Wireless enabled. I never reboot now a day to enable my Wlan enabled in my Ubuntu.

Linux Networking, Ubuntu Hardy, Ubuntu, wlan