network adapters supported

[tbrownarcher2]

Have you tried other USB ports with the wireless adapter?

Yes i have tried 4 usb ports

Power management might be messing it up also, try

What is the connection to the power management


so your saying that my adapter should work now ? Do I have the right drivers ? Is everything to your safisfaction then ?

thanks,
Nate

[JeremyB]

Have you tried other USB ports with the wireless adapter?

Yes i have tried 4 usb ports

Power management might be messing it up also, try

What is the connection to the power management


so your saying that my adapter should work now ? Do I have the right drivers ? Is everything to your safisfaction then ?

thanks,
Nate

Your drivers seem to be the right ones compared to other info I have found even with people who had the same device working. Power management on wireless devices can cause problems. The only other thing I can think of that might cause the issues is that the USB connector on the wifi has been damaged and it might have a broken solder joint

[tbrownarcher2]

Your drivers seem to be the right ones compared to other info I have found even with people who had the same device working. Power management on wireless devices can cause problems.

Where in that file do i find drivers I dont' see anything that mentions linksys.

The only other thing I can think of that might cause the issues is that the USB connector on the wifi has been damaged and it might have a broken solder joint

That is a bit funny because the 2 that do not work are physicly fine the one that does work the wirelessG is bent both ways and wiggles when you put it in the machine. The netgear I actually had to find a driver to get it too work with windows . It was not working in either windows or linux. and the linux AE2500 wireless n is brand new and in windows it works great ...

So if it's power management in my computer how do I look for that ? I actually do not see anything about power management in the main menu.

Thanks,
Nate

[JeremyB]

Linksys doesn't make the chipset inside, it has an RT73 chipset

To check power management

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iwconfig | grep Power

[PatH57]

changing from wpa to wpa2 have fixed some problems, don't ask why it fixed my connection in france on my mothers internet (took me hours trying every possible setting)
I'd say for wifi check with the folks at http://www.kali.org/ they have tried a lot of cards and just dropped some

[tbrownarcher2]

PatH57 :
In my Network settings when i click on the network arc in notification panel I see security: wpa, wpa2. That is where it is set .... How do i change it to something else ?

Jeremy :
This is what I got

nate@nate /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.59 $ iwconfig | grep power
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

nate@nate /usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.59 $

What does that mean ? I will look up wireless extensions

Thanks,
Nate

[PatH57]

the setting for wpa or wpa2 is done on the router not the PC
Also I did notice "ndiswrapper" did you try to install windows drivers?

[tbrownarcher2]

no did not install windows drivers .

hmmmm how would I do that ? Would i go on the internet to get it or take it off the CD? I would not know how to install a windows driver on linux. Is there a button on the router to set wpa? Or is it done with the software . I don't remember how to get to that software.

Thanks,
Nate

[PatH57]

Hi, you do not need ndiswrapper remove it and open synaptic (package manager) and type in broadcom and remove all of the ones in that section that are installed.
Then run these commands

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter && sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
Then disconnect your wired connection and restart your computer.

[tbrownarcher2]

no did not install windows drivers .

hmmmm how would I do that ? Would i go on the internet to get it or take it off the CD? I would not know how to install a windows driver on linux. Is there a button on the router to set wpa? Or is it done with the software . I don't remember how to get to that software.

Thanks,
Nate

[PatH57]

for the moment just chek that

you do not need ndiswrapper remove it and open synaptic (package manager) and type in broadcom and remove all of the ones in that section that are installed.
Then run these commands

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter && sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
Then disconnect your wired connection and restart your computer.

[tbrownarcher2]

PatH57:

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter && sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
Then disconnect your wired connection and restart your computer.

was I supposed to connect the wired side of my network? I only have wireless no wired here .....


this is the output of the install what do i do with it ?

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nate@nate ~ $ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter && sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
[sudo] password for nate: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  b43-fwcutter
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 322 not upgraded.
Need to get 25.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 89.1 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main b43-fwcutter i386 1:018-2 [25.4 kB]
Fetched 25.4 kB in 0s (105 kB/s)      
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package b43-fwcutter.
(Reading database ... 158755 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../b43-fwcutter_1%3a018-2_i386.deb ...
Unpacking b43-fwcutter (1:018-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:018-2) ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firmware-b43-installer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 322 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,960 B of archives.
After this operation, 57.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse firmware-b43-installer all 1:018-2 [3,960 B]
Fetched 3,960 B in 0s (7,497 B/s)           
Selecting previously unselected package firmware-b43-installer.
(Reading database ... 158762 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../firmware-b43-installer_1%3a018-2_all.deb ...
Unpacking firmware-b43-installer (1:018-2) ...
Setting up firmware-b43-installer (1:018-2) ...
No chroot environment found. Starting normal installation
--2014-07-26 20:41:33--  http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
Resolving www.lwfinger.com (www.lwfinger.com)... 173.254.28.119
Connecting to www.lwfinger.com (www.lwfinger.com)|173.254.28.119|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 13514651 (13M) [application/x-bzip2]
Saving to: ‘broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2’

100%[======================================>] 13,514,651   282KB/s   in 79s    

2014-07-26 20:42:53 (168 KB/s) - ‘broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2’ saved [13514651/13514651]

Deleting old extracted firmware...
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_ap.o
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_sta.o
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/README
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/config/
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/config/wlconfig_lx_shared
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/config/wl.mk
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/config/wl_default
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/config/wl_hnd
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/config/wlconfig_nomimo
This file is recognised as:
  filename   :  wl_apsta.o
  version    :  666.2
  MD5        :  e1b05e268bcdbfef3560c28fc161f30e
Extracting b43/lp0initvals14.fw
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  ucode time:     01:15:07
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  ucode date:     2011-02-23
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  ucode time:     01:15:07
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nate@nate ~ $ 

thanks,
Nate

[tbrownarcher2]

someone did ask me if i tried to install a windows driver for my linksys adapter.

I said no but i remember I did try instaling a windows driver with wine . I forgot that.

sorry,
Nate