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Ubuntu 12.04 connects to some wireless networks but not others

I installed 12.04 on a Lenovo Ideapad with a broadcom driver. It connects to some wifi networks with no problems. Although some others it keeps trying to configure and then disconnects and tries ...
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Wi-fi Protected Setup button doesn't allow me to connect

My router comes with Wi-fi Protected Setup. In Windows, I am able to push the button and connect automatically, but thus far I have been unable to do this not only in Ubuntu but in any Linux ...
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WIFI Connection

I have just install Ubuntu 13.04 to my Acer Aspire One but when I want to connect to my wifi it doesn't connect. I put de password and nothing. A message appears with "With out connection" Can anyone ...
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Losing Internet connection every 5 minutes on Kubuntu 13.04 [duplicate]

I'm really upset. Today I just made a fresh install of Kubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, everything went fine, but, after 5 minutes of using it I'm loosing interntet connection. Knetwork says I'm ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 will not connect to school wifi?

I am new to ubuntu. My wireless card is a Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 (rev 57). It will connect fine at my house, but not at school and some other places. The networks which ...
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sharing internet connection

Greeting, I have a portable model. I am intended to use it to share internet connection from ubuntu 13.04 to my android tablet. can anybody help me how can I setup my ubuntu 13.04 as a server in order ...
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Broadcom Wireless BCM43277 WiFi Unavailable

Yesterday I took the decision to go from Win8 to Ubuntu since I was fed up by Win8 not working with my WLAN driver properly and giving me 300KB/s was not how I wanted it. Grabbed a DVD and did a fresh ...
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Frustrated,want to shift to good old windows [closed]

Frustrated about UBUNTU 12.04 LTS ! Not able to do the set up for wireless connection. Waiting for the help on forum for long. Will shift to Windows if don't get the help soon.
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Wi-fi connectivity doesn't work in ubuntu 12.10

I have a DELL Inspiron 6400 and I run Ubuntu 12.10 along side Windows 7. The problem is that in Windows the wifi button works perfectly fine, the light can be turned on and off and so on, also the ...
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Networking Icon Blocked with no networking [duplicate]

The ubuntu networking was diabled and "enable wireless" in the networking was greyed out.The only option available was "configure vpn". Then, I tried using service network-manager stop and the ...
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How to get the connected wifi network ssid?

I want to obtain the currently connected wifi networks ssid in a bash script. I am trying to write a backup script where the script will perform a backup to a NAS server if it's connected to my home ...
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Please Help! HP Pavilion 14. Wireless switch f12, rfkill not working, can not connect to wireless at all

Yesterday i installed Ubuntu onto my HP pavilion 14 laptop (running windows 8), i uninstalled Windows 8 because i hated it and put Ubuntu on top of it. I downloaded it off of a disk a burned from my ...
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unable to connect to wifi network on dell vostro2520r

I am unable to connect to wifi and bluetooth on my newly installed ubuntu 12.10. My machine is a dell vostro 2520. can anyone help please The output of rfkill is : Usage: rfkill [options] command ...
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Wireless Connection Issues

I am having issues in my labs with ubuntu. I have ubuntu installed as a partition on my hard drive and run it as a seperate OS as opposed to using a Virtual Machine. I cannot use the wireless at all. ...
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Cant Connect to Internet with Ubuntu 12.10

I'm having a problem connecting to internet on Ubuntu 12.10(just installed after giving up with 12.04 issues with graphics card) with a wireless and with a wired connection. I have looked into solving ...
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Every time I connected to my home network, everyone else get disconnect?

This is a very weird problem and I don't even have a clue where can I start to looking for a solution. I have a laptop with Ubuntu installed and at home we have a 4MB plan, also I always get connect ...
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Realtek RTL8187L WiFi Adapter will not connect to the internet

I just bought a Realtek RTL8187L WiFi adapter and though the driver seems to have been installed and the machine recognizes the networks around, it won't connect to any! What should I do?
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I have issues connecting to Internet in Ubuntu 12.10

I am dual booting Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10. It can't connect to the Internet on Ubuntu 12.10. I have not had any way to update anything for it to try and connect it. It would be nice if I could ...
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How can I search for a public wifi hot spot?

How can I search for a public wifi connection? I can connect to the wireless router at home which I used during the installation of lubuntu perfectly fine but when I visit the library I'm forced to ...
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Wireless Connection problem

While I was surfing the internet, Wireless Network is disconnected by itself, whereas internet with modem routers running normal continually & my internal WLAN in laptop is enabled.
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Wireless intermittently failing on 12.04 and 12.10

I seem to have a failing wireless card that happens after a few hours. This card is new and works fine in a windows 7 pc (I installed it to make sure it works). My machine is as follows: sudo lshw ...
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WIFI blocks incoming connections after some time

I have the problem that my Wifi on Ubuntu 12.10 blocks incoming connections after some time of running. The ubuntu machine doesn't react on ping or ssh connections. The connections does not only fail ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and RTL8187L problem with connection?

I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and my Airlive WL1700USB wireless card connects ok to access points, but there are big variations in speed. Sometimes it is 200Kb/s then again only 10b/s and so on. ...
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Network does not work in Ubuntu or Linux Mint, works in Windows 7

I have no wired or wireless connectivity in Ubuntu or Linux mint. I have tried Gnome and KDE versions of both. Networking works in Windows 7 on the same machine. In the Ubuntu 12.10 Network manager ...
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Problems with wireless connnection

I have Ubuntu with Unity and KDE interfaces. And my wireless connection to the Internet via one router(only this) in KDE is much faster than in Unity. What can be the reason?
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Wired or Wireless cant connect to İnternet with Acer aspire 5750G

I have problem with connection to Internet. I'm using W8 and it works properly but, when ı turn on Ubuntu I'm pushing Fn+F3(enabled-disabled) it says nothing. There are lots of İnternet connections ...
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Internet Connection from wireless connection died

I installed ubuntu 12.10 with WUBI, dual booting with Windows 8 Release Preview on my Compaq CQ40-338TU notebook. I have a DSL connection, with TP-Link wireless modem. Ubuntu can detect the ...
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Wi-Fi is unable to connect

The Wi Fi at my house can connect on my windows partition, but not on Ubuntu. On all flavors. I have a Comcast service, and Im using a Netgear router. (A relatively new one.)
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Ubuntu 12.10 no network devices detected

I installed ubuntu 12.10 on my Dell Vostro 3460 and no network devices are detected (ethernet and wireless). when I run lspic, I see: 1:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 ...
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Accidently deleted wireless connection from edit connection, not able to connect to the wifi

I am using ubuntu 12.04, I accidently deleted my wireless network connection from edit connections option, now my wifi network is not appearing in the list of available networks and also when i am ...
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My wireless network cannot be turned on

From my installation until now, I cannot connect to WIFi. In settings, when I try to turn it on, it goes back to off. It was ok in Windows, but in Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop it can't work. My hardware ...
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New MacBook Pro Wireless Networking Won't Show Up

I just dual-booted Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzel on my new MacBook Pro. I go into the Networking menu, and there's not even a section for wireless. Here's my networking menu: Wired Network ...
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wireless problem ubuntu 12.04

I am on an hp dv6 7011 tx that has the broadcom bcm 4313 chipset. The bcmwl-kernel-source driver is installed by default and it does not work. The enable wireless option in the network applet is ...
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WiFi USB adapter showing the Network … but no connection in effect

I have Pentium 4 system 3 GHz, 1 GB RAM ..... (no built-in WiFi) I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my PC, works fine. It picked all the drivers for audio, video itself. I plugged TP-Link 54Mbps High Gain ...
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No internet (wireless nor wired) on HP 6735b after upgrade to 12.10

So I've got a HP 6735b laptop. When I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it, I didn't have any wireless. After I downloaded the drivers via wired connection everything worked fine. Now I've upgraded to ...
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Lubuntu 12.10 The add button still not active

I cant seem to add VPN from my network connections. This similar post doesn't help me since I can't connect to the Internet with my Netbook to fetch the installation. Any ideas on how to fix this ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Wireless won't connect with gnome network manager or wicd

I have an HP Pavilion Slimline s3100n and I cannot for the life of me get the wifi to connect and stay connected in any circumstances with network manager or wicd... I'm pulling my freaking hair out ...
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Cannot connect Ubuntu to iPhone 5 hotspot

I am a real novice with Ubuntu. A friend gave me a laptop with it installed. It didn't seem to have a problem picking up the WiFi at work, but I have just got an iPhone 5 and am using it as a hotspot ...
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In need of connection help

I've been stuck at this for a while now and cant figure it out. My friend installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my tower and used his internet cable and it worked fine. I asked him before he did it if it was ...
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just downloaded ubuntu on macbook pro and cannot see internet connections available

I am just getting started using ubuntu, and am very unfamiliar with the OS and cannot seem to see my wireless connection under network connections, can someone please help me?
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[SOLVED]Lenovo IdeaPad z570 wireless adapter isn't working properly in Ubuntu 12.04

So, the anamnesis: Machine: Lenovo IdeaPad z570 WiFi-adapter: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000 OS: Ubuntu 12.04 $ uname -a $ Linux username-Ideapad-Z570 3.2.0-32-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 26 ...
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I can't install my TL-WN422G in ubuntu 12.10

I have installed ubuntu 12.10 in my PC and removed windows 7, but i have a problem with my Tp link WN422G, it does not work, i try differents methodes to install it and it give no results. I need your ...
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What does “ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available” mean?

I had an intermittent issue (which resolves itself spontaneously, after using a different connection for a while) that caused Internet requests to fail, with one particular wireless network. After ...
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Wireless speed drops over time and doesn't get up if not reconnected on an Asus PCE-N15 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: RealTek RTL8188CE WiFi adapter doesn’t connect reliably I am using Ubuntu 12.10 64bit and I have a Asus PCE-N15 wireless card(in PCI-E slot). The problem is that first ...
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Installing ndiswrapper tools without ubuntu live cd / network issue

I'm pretty new to ubuntu and would like to install a wifi dongle. To do this I need ndiswrapper. Unfortunately I can't seem to be able to download and install the tools without having an ubuntu ...
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Wifi getting slower and slower

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my windows machine. It's a custom built using: Intel 3570k Asus P8Z77 motherboard Asus PCE N15 network card When I first boot, everything is okay. However, after ...
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Wireless connection problems

Upgrade manager rec. Ubuntu12.4 which I downloaded using a wireless connection. Worked fine for 5 days then lost connectivity, can only connect using wired. Am being asked to 'authenticate ' with ...
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How to Stop Ubuntu 12.10 Wireless From Dropping Out [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: There’s an issue with an Alpha/Beta Release of Ubuntu, what should I do? Appreciate any help. I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 and it's been a nightmare on my Wireless ...
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Wired connection stops working suddenly

I have Ubuntu 12.04. I was downloading something via Aria... and then it suddenly stopped. There was no connection to the Internet. I tried to ping the host but there was no reply. Also tried to ping ...
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Can't connect to the Internet [closed]

I installed, today 10/05/12, for the first time. I've used Windows for several years. Well, it's not as user friendly as some people claim. I decided to give it a try but it's very upsetting that ...

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