Re: problem with wireless card
- From: "John DeCarlo" <johndecarlo@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:58:35 -0500
On 2/23/06, MICHAEL WEAVER <michaelweaver1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yesterday someone quite experienced in the technical field had a look at
my
laptop to find out why I couldn't make a wireless connection.
What type of wireless connection are you trying to get to work? Is there
encryption involved? How do you know you aren't connecting?
He found that he could log into my system after booting but for some reason
when he tried to do something and he was asked for my password it wasn't
accepted.
Presumably this is when you try to do something as the administrator and it
prompts you for your password. Are you saying that if you type in your own
password that you get an error? Does the error say invalid password or
something like you are not authorized to do this?
I had upgraded from Hoary to Breezy using the CD so I am wondering if I had
an upgrade issue which might be causing problems as regards my connecting
to
the Internet using my Raylink wireless card.
Difficult to tell without more information.
He seemed to think that something called Pan might be missing.
pan is a newsreader. Maybe he thought that there were problems with
passwords because "pam" wasn't working. This sounds like speculation
without evidence. It can be very difficult for someone not used to Debian
and apt to figure out what is and isn't installed.
If you run 'synaptic' and do a Search for pam, do you see a bunch of
packages that start with "libpam" as installed?
Could this be why I am having all this trouble with my wireless card which
is causing it not to be able to communicate with the server at Vox Bar
which
is the place where I attend my Linux User Group?
It is possible. If you can't do anything as administrator, then you can't
change your wireless card settings to have the right ESSID and encryption
for any location.
It was suggested I take my Breezy Badger CD to my next meeting but I don't
know if I will have to do a fresh install or just an upgrade again to get
the missing files if files are missing or corrupted.
The real issue is finding out what is wrong.
My Laptop is a bit redundant at the moment until I can get Ubuntu to work
with speech.
Now this is another problem not mentioned until now. What kind of speech do
you need? To have the text on the screen read to you?
If you go to the System menu and select Administration and then network, it
should prompt you to enter your password. Type it very carefully, as if you
were logging in. What error message do you get, if any?
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