[kde-linux] Can't get wireless to work

[Bruce Bales]

On Thursday 30 July 2009 21:11:26 JD wrote:
> On 07/30/2009 06:58 PM, Bruce Bales wrote:
> > Greetings -
> >
> > Wireless on my laptop with kubuntu 8.04 was not easy.  I had to
> > sudo iwconfig ath0 essid bbs key (the wep code)  and then
> > sudo dhclient each time I booted up.
> >
> > Then I upgraded to kubuntu 9.04 and the iwconfig line no longer works. 
> > The iwconfig line gives me "ath0 no such device."
> >
> > Wireless was working long enough to install and update 9.04.
> >
> > The main page has an icon which says "network management"  Clicking on
> > that then  "network connection" then "enable wireless"  then "manage
> > connection" gets me nowhere.
> >
> > I would greatly appreciate some help on this.
> >
> > bruce
>
> Hi,
> I believe you would get better answers about non-kde issues on the
> fedora-users mailing list.
> You can subscribe to that list at URL
> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
>
> Since your problem is rather generic, it will not mater if the mailing
> list is for Fedora.
> I do not know if kubuntu has a similar mailing list.
>
> Cheers,
>
> JD

Thank you, JD.  I'll try that.
bruce