new install wireless network does not work
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 2:28 pm
After pulling teeth I finally got linux mint 14 installed on the other computer i"m using mint 13 on this one .
That computer is a Dell dimension 3000, one gig memory and 300 gig hd and a linksys network adapter compact wireless G network adapter.
My problem is that the network automatically installed and ran long enough to install the the system linux mint 14 cinnamon and the updates too.
I guess what happened must have happened on the update but I cannot fix it.
What it's doing is cycling on and off wanting me to enter my pass code for the network. I enter the code then it still does not stay connected long enough to use at all.
When go to the network setup to fix it it actually seems that it may be cycling between the wireless and the wired network though the wired network is unplugged I cannot find where to disable it. Also the wireless network pass code is sometimes and sometimes not entered but mostly is. Still the network does not work.
Another piece of info relevant or not relevant I do not know . ..... On this , the computer that is working , I downoaded and still use WICD for my network manager Because of a similar though not the same problem. I hesitate to do that for this computer for reason's i'm not sure of .... I really want to get network manager to work (stubborn i guess).
Thanks very much,
Nate
That computer is a Dell dimension 3000, one gig memory and 300 gig hd and a linksys network adapter compact wireless G network adapter.
My problem is that the network automatically installed and ran long enough to install the the system linux mint 14 cinnamon and the updates too.
I guess what happened must have happened on the update but I cannot fix it.
What it's doing is cycling on and off wanting me to enter my pass code for the network. I enter the code then it still does not stay connected long enough to use at all.
When go to the network setup to fix it it actually seems that it may be cycling between the wireless and the wired network though the wired network is unplugged I cannot find where to disable it. Also the wireless network pass code is sometimes and sometimes not entered but mostly is. Still the network does not work.
Another piece of info relevant or not relevant I do not know . ..... On this , the computer that is working , I downoaded and still use WICD for my network manager Because of a similar though not the same problem. I hesitate to do that for this computer for reason's i'm not sure of .... I really want to get network manager to work (stubborn i guess).
Thanks very much,
Nate