Wireless does not work

[Ron]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

I just purchased an Acer eMachine 520-2496 initially loaded with Linpus, but I loaded Ubuntu 8.10 on the entire hard drive. Everything works great including Ethernet Internet, but I can not get the wireless system to work. When I try to load Network Manager it shows in the installed applications, but not in; System. Administration. I does show that a Ubuntu driver is loaded and active in: System, Administration, Hardware Drivers. I have read the forums and can not figure out how to get it to work on wireless.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[FredBezies (fredbezies-deactivatedaccount)]

Try : sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules.

It will add the atheros kernel modules which is missing. After this, just use Hardware drivers and reboot. Wireless Network should be recognized.

[Florian Diesch (diesch)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it without more information.

Please include the following additional information, if you have not already done so (pay attention to lspci's additional options), as required by the Ubuntu Kernel Team:
1. Please include the output of the command "uname -a" in your next response. It should be one, long line of text which includes the exact kernel version you're running, as well as the CPU architecture.
2. Please run the command "dmesg > dmesg.log" after a fresh boot and attach the resulting file "dmesg.log" to this bug report.
3. Please run the command "sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log" and attach the resulting file "lspci-vvnn.log" to this bug report.

For your reference, the full description of procedures for kernel-related bug reports is available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies Thanks in advance!

[Ron (ronluvjesus)]

Thank you
I tried: sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules
I'm not sure what you meant by using the hardware drivers. I shows under: System, Administration,
Hardware drivers. That I have a Ubuntu diver installed for wireless that is active.

[Ron (ronluvjesus)]

I changed wireless driver to Atheros netathw.inf when I run sudo lshw -C network I no longer get unclaimed, but network manage will not come up still.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

not a gnome-terminal issue.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Ron,

Could you please provide the information requested earlier as text file attachments rather than screenshots. Screenshots make it difficult to review the information you provide.

In addition to the information already requested by Florian, please also attach your /var/log/daemon.log to this bug report.

Thanks

[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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