No wired -- No wireless -- need help please--Ubuntu Hardy

Hey

Dont worry. i was also a noob and still am.

Read carefully.

When Ubuntu gets updated it kernal number changes. The last 2 numbers usually do. Like everything else.

So when i read on websites and followed there instructions there kernal numbers were different to my current setup. This was because when they made the tut they had an older version of ubuntu etc. So...

Like many tuts they say download the b43fwcutter from a site. Do that. {I would give you the website that i used to do the instructions but i dont have that website on my portable flash....later when i have time i will reply and give u the website}

Put the b43fwcutter.tar.gz on the desktop. unzip it by right clicking on it and extract archive.

Bring up a terminal and change the location of the terminal and point it to the desktop by using cd /usr/desktop. press enter ( i forgotten the correct syntax but you should at least try to find out yourself.)

Hold on i will get back to you as soon as i can.

I cant explain it off my head.

The important note is that when extracting or building the source code from the extracted tar.gz you must specify the correct directory ie the exact numbers in your kernal.

For example the website says sudo change directory to 34343.343.42 but your Ubuntu kernal numnber is 34343.343.45 Notice the 45 and not 42. The termianl usually picks this out and tells you cannt find directory or file. You must look your self and find out the correct kernal of yours and type NOT what THE WEBSITE SAYS BUt use your kernal numbers.

type NOT what THE WEBSITE SAYS BUt use your kernal numbers.

type NOT what THE WEBSITE SAYS BUt use your kernal numbers.

type NOT what THE WEBSITE SAYS BUt use your kernal numbers.

No worries Applecache,

I got it going  

As it turns out ssb was loading before ndiswrapper

Thanks for the reply though

I really appreciate it

Whats ssb and ndiswrapper?

NDISwrapper

and SSB is a driver of sorts I guess.

I had to gedit ssb to load after ndiswrapper so that ndiswrapper would allow my wireless card to connect.

I really only had to gedit B44  because it will automatically load SSB

I cant believe it but I think that makes sense.

Sorry I am still new to this whole Ubuntu/Linux thing.

Applecache,

Could you expand on the precedure you mention above regarding:

Bring up a terminal and change the location of the terminal and point it to the desktop by using cd /usr/desktop. press enter

1 - what is meant by "location" of terminal? I thought it just sat on the desktop as another window.

2 - what is meant by "point" the terminal to the desktop. I get a nothing found type error when I try to cd /usr/desktop

I am trying to configure xterm to serve "point" to the ttyUSB0 port to access my router.

Thanks...

What i meant with "location" of terminal is that when you open a terminal you see on the far left this: username@name_of_machine:~$ but when you change the directory/location of the terminal by using cd /usr/share as an example the far left becomes: username@name_of_machine:/usr/share$.

 The 'poin' issues that i wrote up does not exist. You will see in the directory /usr we only have the current folders:

bin  games  include  lib  lib32  lib64  local  sbin  share  src  X11R6
 so nothing found type error is true because the folder doesnt exist.{When i was trying to help  the other person i got abit carried away and didnt know my linux directory structure so i made up cd /usr/desktop ----but in essence that section was just to tell the person to change your directory {cd command} to wherever you had saved the source code for the wireless drivers/firmware.}

Quote: I am trying to configure xterm to serve "point" to the ttyUSB0 port to access my router.

I dont how or what that is sorry. Im not able to afford a that equipment:smileysad:

With regard to the above post stating that i would direct users to the site that helped me with wireless issues here it is:

http://geekdept.com/blog/?p=29

Just remeber: dont type what ever the tutorial says. Look at what you have becaus: quote from website: 

b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/2.6.24-8-generic wl_apsta.o

this line might look innocent but 2.6.24-8-generic wl-apsta.o is OLD. Replace the text with new 2.6..........etc etc etc