Hi! I am Using Dell Inspiron 1564 Laptop Intel i3 CPU and with Broadcom 413 Series Wireless Network Card and 4GB DDR RAM. Ubuntu 10.04 amd64 installed via wubi inside windows7.
After Enabling File Sharing Services on Ubuntu 10.04 My Wireless Network is Disabled and Does Not get back by any means although the driver remains active. Even I tried editing the Wifi Config File manually setting Wireless Network Present= False to the True Condition means Wireless Network Present = True still It didn't help. I used the manual editing of config file under instructions from another query at Ubuntu forums. (I am still a learner of Linux myself)
1-When I first faced this issue I was not sure why did it happen so I simply formatted and reinstalled the Ubuntu and error went off. My wireless network was now working fine till this afternoon. I did have a doubt on Samba services last time so This time I installed the file sharing services and even transferred a folder from my desktop with same OS to my laptop but then I restarted The laptop the Wireless Network Got Disabled and Could Not be Enabled by any Means Until I Removed all SAMBA Services / Packages from Ubuntu Software Center and restarted the Laptop. Now again Wireless network is enabled automatically and working.
2- Secondly In My Desktop When I share a folder from my desktop computer It works fine but after the restart the Shared folders are no more shared and I have to Share each folder again after every restart. The Desktop is An AMD Athlon X2 (64Bit) Dual core 2.1Ghz with Asus Motherboard of NV Series and Has 3GB DDR III RAM running in dual boot with windows XP SP3 but windows XP is on Separate Physical Hard Drive and I use F8 on Boot to Select which HDD to boot from. Wifi working through ASUS USB, EZ Series Wifi Card connected to USB on My Desktop.
Somebody Please Help.
Regards
Salik Mahmud
It took Few days to confirm the Bug and Its reason But Finally I Reached a work around for this:
1- What happens is that most of the times (on some machines probably) when we enable File sharing it adds an unwanted or rather disturbing package named as "SAMBA Support for Unix Old Servers and Clients" This blocks the Wireless Network due to some conflict with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Network Manager
2-(Workaround) Simply Go to Ubuntu Software Center and Select Installed Software, Then Type SAMBA in Search bar.
3-Remove The Package that is for Unix Marked as "SAMBA Support for Old UNIX servers and clients"
4 I am making an attachment here so One may check that only the packages mentioned in the Screenshot Image shall be installed and are enough for simple file sharing over the Ubuntu to Ubuntu Network and anything else in that list generated as a result of Search "SAMBA" shall be removed
5- Suggestion: The SAMBA Support for Unix Servers / Clients ; if incompatible and unwanted with Ubuntu Network manager then It shouldn't have been added there.
Hope somebody will fix this Bug Soon.
Till then Use This workaround above and if any clarification is required by anyone, you can send me a mail on email add. mentioned in my profile
Regards