Questions about using Wireless connections in Ubuntu. This tag is not limited to Wifi only.
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Laptop blocking other computers on home WiFi routers
My laptop seems to be blocking other computers when connected to home DSL/cable routers via WIFI.
The problem is reproduced at several locations with the same laptop: other users complain that they ...
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Are there any 802.11ac adapters working in Ubuntu?
Has anyone got an 802.11ac adapter working in Linux/Ubuntu? PCI or USB. Looks like the a6200 might be having issues. And according to wikidev, it's the only released piece of client hardware for ...
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Wireless Disconnected after Upgrade Ubuntu 13.04 at approximately 5 - 10 meters
Since I used Ubuntu version 12.10, I connect Wi-Fi & internet running normally at a distance of approximately 5-10 meters of range of the router or parallel to the floor of the room. After I ...
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Downloads kill WiFi
Just installed 12.10 fresh. Using a run-of-the-mill Netgear N router, and a Netgear WN111v2 USB dongle.
THE PROBLEM: I attempt to install anything using update manager, software center, or via ...
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Problem with connecting to some of wireless networks in ubuntu 12.10
I've recently instaled ubuntu 12.10 on my lenovo ideapad Y570, and i have a big problem with connecting to some of the wireless networks. So, the one at my home is working just fine, as well as my ...
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Authentication problem-I can't enable my wireless driver
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.10 after trying it on a usb stick which worked fairly well.
But currently I am not able to install anything because every time I want to do something I'm prompted to ...
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Keyboard not Working Correctly under Ubuntu 12.10
I recently upgraded to 12.10 from 12.04, I have a wireless Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse (both ise the same dongle) my mouse works but the keyboard doesn't (it types random things) but my wired ...
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How do I Force my Wireless Card to use Mode 802.11n?
I'm using a TP-LINK TL-WN781ND Wireless N card with an AR9285 chipset and an ath9k driver on Xubuntu 12.04.1 with Network manager.
'iwconfig wlan1' shows that it's using a bit-rate of 54 Mb/s. Is ...
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Trying to install realtek drivers for ASUS USB-N13, encountering “Compile make driver error: 2”
I'm trying to put an ASUS USB-N13 wireless adapter in my desktop running Ubuntu 12.04. The details of my problem are identical to the one described in this question: Connecting Asus USB-N13 Wireless ...
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Broadcom Bluetooth device remains undetected (BCM2046, WIDCOMM )
lspci output :
Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
lsusb output :
Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)
rfkill list ...
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Wifi gets automatically disabled in Ubuntu 12.04 Gnome Classic
I am using a HP dv2000 series laptop. I have a broadcom 802.11g wireless apapter installed on the machine. While surfing the internet in Ubuntu 12.04, sometimes the Wifi gets disabled automatically. ...
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12.04 Wifi slow on home network but not at school
On my home network (linksys router) my wifi works but is really slow. When i plug in to ethernet from the same router it becomes very fast. When I went to school the wifi worked very fast on their ...
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Ubuntu unable to detect 'Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless'
I'm trying the 64bit Ubuntu 12.04 on my new laptop to see if I'd like to get rid of Windows 8. The problem is that it's not detecting my wireless. It works in Windows 8, but won't work in Ubuntu.. I ...
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Wifi slows to crawl Intel Centrino wireless -N 1000
I've been experiencing sever bandwidth issues with my laptop and was hoping someone could help me resolve them.
Speedtest.net typically reports my dl rate is ~ 18 Mb, upload ~ 2.5 Mb and ping ~ 20ms, ...
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wifi usb dongle detected but no wlan interface
I'm using ubuntu 12.04. When I insert my philips PTA01 usb wifi dongle, in dmesg i can see:
[ 1181.535290] usb 2-3: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
[ 1181.684074] usb 2-3: New USB ...
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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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Wireless with Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a Samsung Series 5 530U3C-A0J and while Ethernet works, I am having trouble with wireless LAN. It manages to establish a connection to my router without any problems, but ...
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Installing wireless driver on Ubuntu 12.10 distribution
Brand new to the linux community.
I have an hp mini 1000 that doesn't have an ethernet port. I'm transferring everything to it via a flash drive. I'm following the instructions for 'b43 - no internet ...
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Wifi connected but no internet
i hope someone can help me with this, it was the story of today for me:
Everything was going ok and my internet worked perfectly for every device I had (computer, tablet, phone) except for my two ...
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Problem linking WLAN to Ethernet
So I've been trying to use a laptop who's wifi card doesn't work properly, by using a Lenovo V570 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 to bridge the two networks. I changed my ethernet network to "Shared to other ...
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Slow internet speed on Ubuntu 12.10
I installed Ubuntu to dual boot with Windows 8. The installation went ok, but when I began downloading software, say games on Steam, the download speed fluctuated between zero and several hundred ...
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Why does the WiFi disconnects when I plug my laptop?
If I connect my laptop to the power the WiFi stops for every other devices on the same network but still works on my laptop...
I tried couple things like power management using iwconfig and some grub ...
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Internet on wireless doesn't work without charger
My laptop is running on Ubuntu 12.04. Since last few days, I am facing a strange problem (some may even call me crazy after reading this). My laptop is Acer Aspire 5755 (specifications - just in case)
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How do I resume an interrupted video stream recording?
I'm trying to start a recording every evening, starting from 19:00 and stopping at 02:00. The webcam does export its stream as rtsp video stream and I am able to start the recording correctly with VLC ...
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WICD WPA2-PEAP connection without domain
I'm having trouble connecting to my school's wifi. It uses WPA2-PEAP and TKIP. The instructions for connecting tell me to leave the domain field blank and just enter my user name and password. This ...
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Unable to connect to wireless network. (Acer Travelmate 4152NLCi)
Kinda new to Ubuntu :)
I don't have any knowledge about programming or tech stuff so, please go easy on me :).
I've decided to wipe my Windows XP os and decided to have ubuntu 12.10. It worked fine ...
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How do I get the Ralink wireless controller working on an HP Envy 7212nr?
The output of lshw -C network reads as follows:
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Ralink corp.
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Notification Icon Area Not Showing All Icons
The first wierd thing i should note is that when i start up the computer, it says connecting to wifi in a notification box on the login screen. Which is normal for me but ever since this glitch ...
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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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How to inject or know if my wireless card is injectable
what ways or methods exist to know if a wireless card is injectable or can be injected (Packet injection). Answers should not include recommending me to use another OS that is not the official Ubuntu ...
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Add Server between current wireless router and new router
I have a Ubuntu 12.04 Server with a wireless router attached. I would like to connect it to my modem/wireless router via the wireless interface in a transparent manner. My goal is to use the server to ...
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Wireless signal drops on Lenovo G series
This question was asked before, but it went unanswered so I thought I might give it a try and ask.
I have a Lenovo G series laptop which came with Windows 7 64bit. I installed Ubuntu 12.10 recently ...
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Ubuntu 12.10/UNR wireless thinks network uses wrong security
I have a recently-upgraded UNR (12.04) running on my netbook, and I just built a computer with Ubuntu 12.10. UNR had no wireless problems until I upgraded, and now the only way I can connect is by ...
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Option to connect to WiFi disappeared after upgrading
I installed Lubuntu on to my Presario V5000 today off my old 12.04 disk. I installed all the updates then upgraded to 12.10 I was hooked up to an Ethernet cable to update it and before I saw firmware ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 wireless network disconnects with Samsung NP350E7C-S05NL
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.1O on my new Samsung NP350E7C-S05NL laptop. The problem is that it wireless internet keeps disconnecting, after a few minutes working, and I have to continuously ...
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How can i get my USB wifi to work after a reboot?
I have a desktop PC with Win 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 and default GRUB, also, i have a wifi USB adapter plugged which automatically connect to my personal wifi.
My problem is this:
when i boot into Win 7 ...
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Software to _easily_ create Hotspot
At this link there is a tricky and not always working solution to activate a wifi-hotspot using wifi.
Does someone know any program (like Connectify for Windows) that does this? I understand this ...
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Not able to connect to my wireless router
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.10 in my laptop. I am not able to connect to my D-Link N150 Wireless Router which i was able to do when I had Windows XP.
The Problem
Everytime I log on to my Ubuntu, ...
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Why does network manager automatically choose WEP over WPA & WPA2?
I am on Ubuntu 12.10 and for some reason my wireless connection is using WEP when it is set to use WPA/WPA2 Personal.
Also I should mention that I used to be on 12.04 and was experiencing the ...
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Make a wifi repeater?
My house is wired for Ethernet but all the wires come to the basement which is where my dsl modem and my Netgear WNDR3700v3 wifi router is. I get practically no wifi signal upstairs but i have an Acer ...
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Wireless Access Point with login/landing page
I´m investigating how to setup a Wireless Access Point in a Linux (Ubuntu, in my case) PC where is mandatory to login/register using a backend module that I have developed.
I know that exist some ...
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neither mobile broadband nor wireless connects on ubuntu whereas it does in windows 7 running parallely
i am using ubuntu 12.04 on my dell inspiron n5010. I read almost all the posts available but couldn't get my internet connection established. I have an MTS Mblaze usb net connect. i added the device ...
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How do I use network manager (instead of command line tools) for wifi with Broadcom BCM4401 card when booting without network cable?
I installed 12.04 on to a non-PAE laptop using the network-based (ncurses interface) install disk.
Once I had the unity desktop up-and-running, wireless was working fine "out of the box" with the ...
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Toshiba Satellite C855-S5343 - Wireless Randomly Drops
I'm having an issue that seems to be pretty common both on here, and the Ubuntu Forums. Sadly, I couldn't find any solutions that corresponded to my particular laptop model.
The issue is simply: the ...
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Widi (Wireless Display) set up on Ubuntu 12.10
I recently purchased a Sony Vaio S Series Ultrabook that comes with Wireless Display. The steps to set this up on Windows 8 seem to be well documented but I haven't come across how to set this up on ...
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Ubuntu on MacbookPro: how to get a support for 802.11a/n (5GHz) with chip broadcom 4331?
I have been having problems with N mode. When I execute iwconfig get wlan0 IEEE 802.11b/g
and when I boot in Mac os my wireless card info is :
Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 ...
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microsoft wireless mobile 4000 usb bluetrack mouse not working in ubuntu 12.04?
Do you guys have any idea why my microsoft wireless 4000 usb mobile blue track mouse will not work with Ubuntu 12.04? I have searched many forums and can't really find any usefull information. It's ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 not properply working on Asus u46E after Update
I recently installed the latest Ubuntu update on my laptop and since then, the alignment on the browser is messed up, the mouse is not working, and I can't connect to the internet. Before it was ...
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wifi and the gwibber icons disappeared from the indicator applet
They have disappeared from the indicator applet in the gnome-panel without asking me anything nor notifying. How can I bring them back in 11.04? I have rebooted and the situation persists.
The ...
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How do I share a connection from an iPhone to Ubuntu?
I would like to share my 3g connection from my iPhone with my computer. I made it worked using usb on ubuntu 12.04 but since I updated to 12.10 (my bad) now it says : "device not managed".
I tried a ...
