Eeebuntu wifi connection problem

I can't connect to internet through wired connection Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 11 months ago. Active 1 year, 4 months ago. Viewed 3k times. Edit: Thank you for your help, but I still have problem. Improve this question. SH Ali. SH 21 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Secondly, enter the command below, into a new terminal: sudo ifconfig eth0 up With 'eth0' being edited depending on the output of 'ifconfig' This should start the ethernet wired connection adapter and provide you with network connection.

Improve this answer. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Left-click on the panel applet four vertical bars in 9. If you can see wireless networks, then your wireless works; you need to connect to a network. See below on network connection. Troubleshooting Steps Troubleshooting wireless networks in Ubuntu can be approached in three steps in order: Check that your wireless adapter is enabled and that Ubuntu recognizes it: see Device Recognition and Operation.

Check if drivers are available for your wireless adapter; install them and check them: see Device Drivers. I have Xubuntu on my other laptop and decided to go with eeebuntu NBR on this one. Anyway, my problem after getting the ethernet working is that the wifi network is detected and shown by network manager but when I try to connect it tries connecting for twenty or thirty seconds and then just says that it's disconnected.

The only answer I've really found was installing the backports, which I did it did get me to the point of being able to see the networks, as before that I had no wifi function , but it doesn't fix my problem.

I'll give you all the information that I can think of which isn't much , but if you need more, ask and I'll get it to you. Device rev c0 AR Wireless Network I'm not sure exactly what this means, but I'll go ahead and give it to y'all just in case it's important.

Atheros card: should be ath0 I think, not wlan0 it is on the machine I built with Atheros wireless chipset. Result of: ifconfigand iwconfig Get into the config and check.