Have windows Vista and Ubuntu 10.04 on SAME hard drive in a Gateway T-1620 laptop, Vista uses Wifi but in Ubuntu it Fails and states message "Wireless is Disabled" Mt question is "How do I enable IT {wifi}. 60 year old Linux Newbie w/Experience looking for Answer asked 05 May '10, 16:55 kICKSTARTBUBBA |
Ok this could be a couple of things.
If it is a firmware issue in Ubuntu run Hardware Drivers from the system menu or How it tell if networkmanager as disables Networking or Wireless Networking. Right click on you network icon (should be around the top right of your screen unless you made changes) there will be able menu that pops up at the top of it are checkboxes to enable Networking and Wireless make sure both are checked. The other issues seem to be covered well in other answers. answered 06 May '10, 19:23 verbalshadow |
Check out how I resolved my issue with Ubuntu not turning on my Wifi when I used the hardware switch. The system would say that the wireless network card was DISABLED - it worked about two weeks before just fine. Here's my tech blog with how I took care of this issue - hope it helps: answered 24 May '11, 21:38 beely |
When I had issues with Wireless on my laptop, I followed lots of tutorials from various parts of the internet to no avail. I can't remember why but I had to install some of the ia32 libs, which provided my 64 bit Debian install with access to 32 bit libraries. I have ia32-libs, ia32-libs-gtk and ia32-libs-tools installed (Ubuntu may call them something different) and one of them enables wireless (or probably more precisely lets the wireless drivers work). You never know, it may be something simple like this. answered 24 May '10, 22:18 Amos |
Try here its from the support site at ubuntu answered 23 May '10, 12:46 some dude in... |
This just came up for me today on my Gateway T-1620. The wireless has been working fine with stock Ubuntu installs for the last couple of years. Today it just didn't want to come up. It turned out instead of the hardware on/off wireless switch, the "software" switch must have been turned off. Hitting Fn-F2 turned it back on, but I had to issue a dmesg command in the terminal in order to see what state it was actually in. There don't seem to be any graphical indicators of this problem. The Realtek wireless card for this laptop only shows up when you do a lsusb command, not a lspci. answered 20 May '10, 17:24 Choach |
Some step by step instructions here http://wombatdiet.net/2010/05/09/ubuntu-10-04-on-asus-1000-eee-pc/ MAY be relevant, depending on the wireless hardware. answered 12 May '10, 17:15 PJO |
Because there is a variance in the pci cards being used you need to do a lspci (first letter is an L) and look for the network card report. You most likely have a Broadcom wireless. Open the Synaptic Package Manager and using the search (binoculars) search on "wireless" and you should find a pair of Broadcom drivers. Install these and reboot your laptop and you should be in good shape. I guess because of the variance they don't include these with the Ubuntu-restricted-extras. answered 05 May '10, 22:25 FewClues |
This might be silly, but I was having the same problem all week on a Dell Inspiron 6000. I keep thinking it was a "Restricted Drivers" problem (a la this thread - which fixed my other machine's problem). In fact, it turned out that all I had to do was toggle the laptop's built-in Wireless "on-off" switch. On my Dell, that's FN-F2. I knew of, but had never used in 5+ years, that hardware toggle. It showed up in one of the Ubuntu logs as "killswitch enabled." If you're a big-time newbie to laptop hardware, look for some sort of wireless icon over your Function keys. I mentioned my Dell's setting; on a Toshiba I have handy, the same toggle is FN-F8. Hey, it's not ALWAYS a complicated driver problem! (: answered 05 May '10, 19:10 Rich This happened to me too! I had the wireless working on my netbook with ubuntu jaunty and one day it stopped working. It took a day or two to figure it out.
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