Comments on: Kubuntu 9.04 WiFi Problem Solved

By: WebbDawg

WebbDawg — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:02:17 +0000

After 2 weeks of this failed 9.04 install and no wireless, I found your fix.

In less that 10 minutes I am online. I cannot believe the Ubuntu Forums does not have this listed.

Thanks
Dave

By: Nat

Nat — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:23:09 +0000

I installed 9.04 from a respin which I got on the July issue of Linux Format magazine. It was missing the package with this widgit in so a search on widgits for network just returned System Monitor. I found the package I needed was plasma-widget-network-manager.

So a quick;

sudo aptitude install plasma-widget-network-manager

(with a lan cable to give internet access) solved the problem.

Hopefully this might help someone else with this version.

By: BD

BD — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:05:32 +0000

I had the same issues, tried the above, didn’t work for me. My laptop would see my wireless network, but wouldn’t connect to it. Then tried installing WICD, setup is simple and worked for me straight away.

By: Aleksander

Aleksander — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:05:11 +0000

Excuse me. I made a mistake. The write code is:

sudo iwlist wlan0 scan essid MySecretSSID

By: Aleksander

Aleksander — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:52:02 +0000

I had the same situation like Saj Joseph. I have not tried his solution yet. I start my network from console:

sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid “MySecretSSID”

and then

sudo iwlist wlan0 scan essid “MySecretSSID”

once, twice or more times.

By: Missaka

Missaka — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:42:09 +0000

I had the same issue with disabled SSID broadcasting on my wireless network. Thanks to Saj Joseph for finding solution. NetworkManager did not honor the connection even when manually added.

By: Kylea

Kylea — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:14:10 +0000

The issue for me is that the Wallet thing has to be enabled otherwise it just will not work.

By: Saj Joseph

Saj Joseph — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:06:19 +0000

What you mentioned here are helpful. I just want to add my experience here. If you have disabled broadcasting of SSID, network manager wasn’t picking up my network (even after I manually entered the SSID value). The solution: Just enable broadcasting on Wireless router temporarily and once NetworkManager configuration is completed, disable it. Everything will work…

Thanks

By: noone

noone — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:39:45 +0000

Note: You may be nagged for your KWallet password now when your computer boots. This is because the Network Management widget is using KWallet to store the wifi password. If anyone knows how to get around this, please feel free to share.

Open your KDEWallet (if you don’t know where it is, just search it in the Kstart). Open menu Configure Wallet and you will see an option Enable the KdeWallet subsystem. Just uncheck it
That’s all!

By: Angel Rodriguez

Angel Rodriguez — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:09:25 +0000

It worked for me, but only in DHCP mode, not with static IP.

Thank you.