Can connect to internet via ethernet, but not wirelessly...

[-spy]

I can get online by using my ethernet cable between the laptop and router, but have absolutely no idea how to get on wirelessly. (wireless works with Vista on same computer) On the Network connections box it doesn't even show a wireless connection option.

help, not too computer savvy btw, sorry

here is the laptop i have http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/...4770Rsp2.shtml

In this box I do not see the top option..

[falcon61102]

There should be an icon in the upper right corner of your desktop that looks like two black monitors, one in front of the other. That's the network manager. If you click on that, do any wireless networks show up?

Also, could you go into your terminal and post the results of the following command:

lshw -C network

[-spy]

There should be an icon in the upper right corner of your desktop that looks like two black monitors, one in front of the other. That's the network manager. If you click on that, do any wireless networks show up?

Also, could you go into your terminal and post the results of the following command:

lshw -C network

When I click the two black monitors it only shows wired connections, no wireless.

Here are the results from the terminal:

"name"s-laptop:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0e:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:03:25:50:80:8c
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.2LK ip=192.168.1.107 latency=0 module=r8169 multicast=yes

[-spy]

^^bump

[halitech]

looking at the screenshot you posted, it looks like you have a wireless connection to a router with the SSID of cydo.

open a terminal and post back the information from

ifconfig

[falcon61102]

By the looks of it, it looks like you need to install the drivers for your wireless card.

Have you check in Hardware Drivers in the System>Administration menu to see if you have all the restricted drivers enabled? If you open that and nothing shows up, then you don't have any so don't worry about it.

If there are no restricted drivers to be enabled then you probably are going to have to download some and install them manually. Shouldn't be a problem, just need to get the right ones.

[falcon61102]

I don't think that's actually a screenshot from his computer.

[halitech]

I don't think that's actually a screenshot from his computer.

d'oh, never thought to look at the properties of the pic and I think you are right, its from beginlinux.com so doubtful its his.

probably an lspci would help out as well if its an internal card.

[falcon61102]

Yeah, I was just thinking that might help us in finding the right driver.

If you could post the results of:

lspci -v

If you want, you can just post the ones dealing with your network card but if you can't pick them out, just post the whole thing.

EDIT:
Or you could use:

lspci -nn

[-spy]

Yeah, I was just thinking that might help us in finding the right driver.

If you could post the results of:

lspci -v

If you want, you can just post the ones dealing with your network card but if you can't pick them out, just post the whole thing.

EDIT:
Or you could use:

lspci -nn

Here is the lspci -v :

lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 1234
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: cfd00000-cfefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000b0000000-00000000bfffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=0d, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: f0200000-f02fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0e, subordinate=13, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: f0300000-f03fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000088000000-00000000880fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0566
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
I/O ports at 8440 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8434 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8438 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8430 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8400 [size=16]
Memory at f0409000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0566
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at f0404000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0566
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at f0405000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0566
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at f0406000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0566
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at f0407000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0566
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at f0408000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0566
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at f0409400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0566
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
I/O ports at 8410 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0566
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 8420 [size=16]

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0566
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at f0400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0566
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=14, subordinate=19, sec-latency=64

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0566
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 255
Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at cfdf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
Memory at cfe00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: <access denied>

01:05.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1200 Series Audio Controller
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1200 Series Audio Controller
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at cfdec000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 2a08 (rev 03)
Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 2a08
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at f0210000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Memory at f0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

0e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0566
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 508
I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
Memory at f0300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 88000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>


and here is the lspci -nn :

lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge [1002:7910]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx) [1002:7912]
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1) [1002:7915]
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2) [1002:7916]
00:07.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3) [1002:7917]
00:12.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA [1002:4380]
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) [1002:4387]
00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) [1002:4388]
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2) [1002:4389]
00:13.3 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3) [1002:438a]
00:13.4 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) [1002:438b]
00:13.5 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) [1002:4386]
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE [1002:438c]
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia [1002:4383]
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge [1002:438d]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] [1002:791f]
01:05.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1200 Series Audio Controller [1002:7919]
08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device [11ab:2a08] (rev 03)
0e:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconduc