Ive got xubuntu installed and tried to install my wireless network card. There are plenty of instructions on the net but I can only get so far. I get up to the point where I should get a readout saying “hardware detected” or even the name of my wireless card.
I dont get this.
The thing is my card is plugged into a riser board ( 2 pci slots on a SFF riserboard) and im wondering if the cards (wifi and sound) are even recognised by xubuntu.
Is there a command I can enter which will tell me what pci cards are detected. I wouldnt have thought id need drivers for a riser card?
[QUOTE=Addis]
try lspci or look in the kernel log file by doing dmesg.
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lspci -vvx is generally the next step to try when something doesn’t appear
using lspci -x should display all PCI devices, however, it doesn’t compare with the PCI IDs file - it essentially just dumps all the PCI device IDs that it sees on the bus.
even unsupported hardware will at least identify itself to a ‘lspci’. If it doesn’t show up in that, it would seem that the card is not even reporting itself present to the system.
[QUOTE=zeus]
I tried lspci -vvx and my soundcard and wifi card isnt in the return.
Maybe I do need to do something to get the riser card working.
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you shouldn’t need to, but maybe removing & reinserting the cards and riser (if you can) then the devices may be visible to your system
Its installed and im now trying to get it to connect to the router. There is only WEP in the options, no WPA2 which is a downer.
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presumably the wlan0 section of /etc/network/interfaces look something like this:auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-driver wext
wpa-ssid My_AP
wpa-ap-scan 2
wpa-proto WPA
wpa-pairwise TKIP
wpa-group TKIP
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk 83b2897b20a2ccfeaff34ecc596b1d67d9fb568188ad3e2ae5 fe1ab703ab359bif not copy this to /etc/interfaces
BTW: personally i’ve never used Wireless, but the info i provided was on Ubuntuforums
[QUOTE=zeus]
It wont let me edit that file. Im just gonna try using wep instead.
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i presume you can’t edit, cos your not root type[code]sudo /etc/network/interfaces
Silly mistakes!! A reseat did it.