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The current problem I am facing arose from a failed installation of Edubuntu 12.04 (from an .iso image on an bootable usb flash stick) to a desktop ide Maxtor 30 gb hdd.
The Maxtor drive was freshly...

If you need to use TKIP encryption, try setting your router to 'broadcast' your wireless network name - I am assuming that your wireless network name is currently 'hidden'.

In terms of security,...

Hi there have a look at post #18 of this link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1471456&page=2

Try deleting the network connection first, temporarily configuring for manual log in to user...

Hi there, your output seems to suggest that you are near to success.

seems to have a missing IP address.

Post the output of these Terminal commands:


sudo dhclient -1 wlan0
ping -c2...

Hi there, if you are using TKIP encryption for your router/gateway/AP, try changing that to AES.

Just a thought, not sure if it would help.

Hi there, there appears to be a workable solution for a usb wireless adapter with the same device ID 0bda:8171 at this link...

Hi there,

I am assuming you did not previously install another program called Wicd to manage your wireless network but is using the default Network Manager.
Note that you should not have both...

Hi there, firstly do you see a sort of 'radio/wireless' beacon on the top line (slightly to your right of your screen)?
Hopefully if yes, left click on it and you should see a list of the available...

Edited : Link above is probably not appropiate as it is for device id 07d1:3c0d - sorry.
This link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1434630 seems more appropriate although the procedure...

Hi there,

Always use copy and paste (ie copy whatever you wish to copy from here and save to a text file on a usb dongle, then transfer text file to Ubuntu machine with wireless problem, open text...

Hi there, I think you have a problem with two conflicting drivers rt2870sta and rt2800usb.

You do not need to install any additional drivers or software but will be using the native drivers that...

Hi there, from here onwards I am probably just shooting in the dark:p.

Have you tried different combination of authmode and encryption for your router/gateway.
Try perhaps WPA2-psk with AES -...

Hi there, please go to a Terminal window and do this:


sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf


add this line to the end of the opened file:

blacklist rt2800usb

Hi tzenda:

This line in your dmesg output is probably your problem:

[ 192.476205] wlan0: authentication with AP 00:26:f2:0d:03:44 timed out

I was wondering if it has anything to do with the...

Hi there, I assume that rt2870stae is a typo error.

Please post output of :


dmesg | tail -n15

Hi there, you may wish to try this:

Change every instance of rt3070sta to rt2870sta (remember to save).

Reboot

Post the output of lsmod | grep -e rt2 -e rt3 again

Hope the suggestion...

Hi there, could you post the output of the following Terminal commands:


sudo lshw -C network



lsmod

Hi there, have a look at post #15 here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1017306&page=2 .
However change ath9k in the Code to ath5k to suit your driver.

Not sure though if this will work...

Hi, I am quite new to Ubuntu myself but I read and learn a lot from this forum and info from the internet.

Perhaps you could start by posting the outputs of


lsusb


lsmod

Hi, have a look at post #1957 and #1959 of this link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=197102&highlight=4318&page=196 and the info in this link...

Congratulations on your success.

If you currently are configure to manually login to your user account at bootup (and don;t want to change this), but wish to autoconnect to your wireless...

Hi there, perhaps the info at this link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper and the attached file on ndiswrapper will help you resolve your issues.

Good luck.

See this link section 5 on how to remove ndiswrapper https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper

Not sure though if all the commands are valid for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

Good...

Hi again, try shutting down the computer, then remove the wireless adapter, then reboot, after that plug in the wireless adapter again - any difference.

If still unsuccessful, post the output of...

Hi there what I can tell at the moment is that you somehow have ndiswrapper installed.



What happens is that we normally would use the native driver (within Ubuntu OS) - rt2870 for this...