[Landrover]

I have a 2008 Dell Inspiron laptop running Ubuntu 10.04 and I'm trying to access a D-link DIR-615 wireless router. The router has already been configured and runs great on the Toshiba satellite I have that runs windows 7, but I can't figure out how to get the Dell onto the network as well. On the CD case for the setup CD that came with the router, it says to run the CD in any computer you wish to have on that network. But when I try to run the autorun program on the disc, it just comes back saying that it cannot find the Auto run program. And when I try to connect with the network by just entering the password, it just keeps trying to connect to the network but that's as far as it goes, it never actually connects. Any help on this issue would be much appriciated.

[Tunz]

If the router is already set up, the CD is unnecessary. If it works for the Toshiba, it will work for Ubuntu. It is indifferent to operating systems in clients.

https://help.ubuntu....connecting.html

This post has been edited by Tunz: 25 November 2011 - 04:22 PM

[LiveBrianD]

Does the ubuntu laptop work on other networks? Try downgrading the security from (hopefully) WPA2 to WPA or WEP or none.

[OpSec39]

Landrover, on 25 November 2011 - 03:49 PM, said:

I have a 2008 Dell Inspiron laptop running Ubuntu 10.04 and I'm trying to access a D-link DIR-615 wireless router. The router has already been configured and runs great on the Toshiba satellite I have that runs windows 7, but I can't figure out how to get the Dell onto the network as well. On the CD case for the setup CD that came with the router, it says to run the CD in any computer you wish to have on that network. But when I try to run the autorun program on the disc, it just comes back saying that it cannot find the Auto run program. And when I try to connect with the network by just entering the password, it just keeps trying to connect to the network but that's as far as it goes, it never actually connects. Any help on this issue would be much appriciated.

It sounds like what you may need to do is go into the routers setup page and add the Mac Address of the other machine your trying to connect. We can only hope it has such a setup page which can be accessed locally via the browser.

The command netstat -r may help, plug in the router to your local ethernet and see what the output of netstat -r is, for example on my network it says:

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0

So I know my gateway to my web-page for accessing my routers settings can be accessed by visiting http://192.168.1.1

Hope that helps.

[Landrover]

I tried to connect using the password, but every time I enter it, it tries to connect but ends up coming back saying that the network was disconnected. The laptop already works with a verizon MiFi 2200 but when I try the D-Link it won't connect. I even found the password to the D-link network on my toshiba and matched it exactly but it still won't connect. I at a loss as to what to do. If someone can help it would be greatly appriciated.

[OpSec39]

Landrover, on 27 November 2011 - 11:17 AM, said:

I tried to connect using the password, but every time I enter it, it tries to connect but ends up coming back saying that the network was disconnected. The laptop already works with a verizon MiFi 2200 but when I try the D-Link it won't connect. I even found the password to the D-link network on my toshiba and matched it exactly but it still won't connect. I at a loss as to what to do. If someone can help it would be greatly appriciated.

I've had similar problems with Ubuntu and the network manager, it's kind of poke on Linux for doing fiddly stuff like this, it's kind of hard to know if the stock kernel carries all the drivers it would need to talk to the D-Link flawlessly or if its some other setting in the network manager like enable IPv6. I know that's not really helpful, but yeap thats Linux in a nutshell, great when it works, crap when it doesn't.

I could reminisce and tell you about the hours of fights I used to have with Ubuntu just to get it to recognize Legacy device drivers for a G-Force FX5500 Graphics card. So much so that after that failed, I tried a variety of other cards and ended up going with the smallest 128MB Radeon because the whole desktop just works with a lot of ATI stuff out of the box and I sadly don't have anything bigger or meaner so no 3D game's for me.

If your trying to associate the router with the laptop it could be your kernel does not support your wireless device correctly have you checked what firmware is installed by default and what the wireless in the laptop with Ubuntu actually is you can find it out with the lspci command in the terminal.

I recently actually went to the extra expense of opening a ZyXEL Router just so I could snaffle the Prism GT miniPCI bus out of it. Thing is those are legacy wireless cards that work with Linux and turn your whole computer into an access point or even a radius server, but buying a Prism 54 off the shelf in a store.. Nuh-uh forget it, ain't gonna happen those things are depreciated so much and so rare nowadays.

People have no idea how rare those kind of legacy devices are getting, if you want a wireless with both a SoftMAC & FullMAC address those are becoming increasingly hard to find. There the ones everyone wants, especially if you want to do wireless sniffing or interception but the newer off the shelf cards are not really designed with that kind of stuff in mind.

Who wants two Mac Addresses "Ooh the Hackers!" LOL

This post has been edited by OpSec39: 27 November 2011 - 01:40 PM

[Tunz]

You should verify that password.
Open a web browser and enter http://192.168.0.1 and press Enter. When the login window appears, set the user name to Admin and leave the password box empty. Click Log.In to continue.
Select the SETUP tab
Select Wireless Settings in the left side panel
Then - Add Wireless Device with WPS
Select the Manual radio button
Enter the given network settings into the Ubuntu Network Manager.

[OpSec39]

Unless theirs an open source device driver for it and one thats easily loaded into the kernel module so its not running on the wrong stock driver for a similar card then that fix will work, but if the card is something like a Broadcom L-PHY Low Power wireless those things have like two firmware versions on Linux and its easy with Ubuntu to choose the wrong one.

[OpSec39]

Open Terminal Type: lspci (hit-return)

Scroll through the output, see your wireless listed under Network Controller?

If so What is it?