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?
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.
thanks for the replies. 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.
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 Edit: does display the missing hardware
Silly mistakes!! A reseat did it. 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.
presumably the wlan0 section of /etc/network/interfaces look something like this: Code: 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 fe1ab703ab359b if not copy this to /etc/interfaces BTW: personally i've never used Wireless, but the info i provided was on Ubuntuforums
It wont let me edit that file. Im just gonna try using wep instead. EDIT: well using wep worked first time. Im typing this from xubuntu!
i presume you can't edit, cos your not root type Code: sudo <editor> /etc/network/interfaces BTW: replace <editor> with your editor (mine is Kate) Edit: [quote=zeus]EDIT: well using wep worked first time. Im typing this from xubuntu![/quote]:good: congrats