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greetings - I am in desperate need of help.

I am new to linux and also new to mint by about an hour. I did my homewrok but not a geek and do not know command line. I am coming from mac Os X and tried ubuntu on a newly boughten jsut for linux laptop. Installed 3 times the last 3 days and no luck for many issues and any possible resolution. so I tried mint on a suggestion from someone in the UK.

anyway I cannot get this wrieless working. It is imperative that I use this laptop via wireless only!!!

I am on an aiprot extreme. this takes a password - 'text' for macs and no issues. the 1 windows old dell that my wife uses for school work at times has a hex code which I have... but nothing works the dell is connected but this linux one won't connect

please help and do not leave me hanging.

thank you!





p.s. i just downloaded wifi radar and it says cannot get ip address...did the same in ubuntu


it also states b instead of g and it did the same in ubuntu before going to g but I am clueless and stumped... I tried everything

the computer is 3 days old


the hex code is the long set of letter and numbers that go for the wep ebcryption on pc's I am on an older linksys 4 port router and a airport extreme inside or behind that. cable modem high speed.

i am trying to load the zipped driver in termonal but I do not know how to do the commands re: the xipped file to unzip from my desktop. could someone help please? I may have found the correct driver. Not sure. thanks.

I do not know how to wrie the command to unzip the .exe driver from my desktop in terminal. Can someone help me out. I am stuck here at this point. thanks.

no wine - no windows....what is the command for this in terminal

any nibbles please? I really need to get the wirless and the sound fixed badly. It is crucial for the wireless to get fixed for using this laptop the way I want to in my home and office.

thank you very much

first off if its a .exe files it not for linux i wouldnt think, try opening synaptic from the control center and installing
airport-utils
bcm43xx-fwcutter

Download this file:
http://boredklink.googlepages.com/wl_apsta.o

then run this command and then put it in the kernel folder too with this command
youll probably need to reboot after this


if it still doesnt work eneter this command and reboot again.

it didn't work the first command you gave me


Cannot open input file /PATH/TO/WHERE/YOU/SAVED/DRIVER/wl_apsta.o
zen@zen-linuxlaptop:~$




also if I get to that point --- in the following command that you gave me the username -r insingle quotes is that my realuser name - thanks - I told you i ws dumb and know no commnd line stuff.

you need to substitute
/PATH/TO/WHERE/YOU/SAVED/DRIVER/wl_apsta.o
with wherever you download the file above,
eg /home/zen/Desktop/wl_apsta.o or whatever

noo 'uname -r' returns the name of the cureent kernel version.

ok when you had all those slashes in there I wasn't sure...

my fault. I apologize - I just learned not to assume anything with command line stuff or all hell breaks loose...

ok hold on I did it this time took me a few tries! (dumb americans, eh???? )))

ok 0 i am rebooting - thank you so very much for helping and stiking by me through this and not commenting and running away until 2 days from now....

Hairy ---- The light came on first time but I cannot get onto the internet....any clues - at least you helped me this far!!!!!

Cool what should i try the mod probe command??? awaiting your reply..tyhank you

it says in the wifiradar app I downloaded connected to K9DOG ip(NONE)


it should auto detect and I have the hecode in there the best that I know from my olde dell my wife uses. I am on airprot and airport takes text code as such or whatever you want to use - mine is just a word combination

do i have to try to find and use an ip address of or from the airport????

thank you

ok did the modprobe rebooted light still on no ip yet....any other suggestions.... we are on the right path...thanks

norman

try running wifi-radar from the terminal to see what messages it shows

sudo wifi-radar -d

thanks for the reply...i am working from powerbook since the other is offline at present - the linux laptop

when I ran it it comes back with dhclient3 --version 2>&1

thank you...i mean it!!!

no problem
i think you might need to install
wpasupplicant

[EDIT] oh and try running sudo iwconfig too[/EDIT]
to make your passwords etc work
then use wifi-radar to configure it

Ok I am sorry - where do I get that? add and remove? please have patience

mu system is wep encrypted 128 bit


i have that - I also noticed that you have something listed under driver - I do not know of any driver info

thanks

same place as the other stuff,
System->Administration->Synaptic then search for wpasupplicant