How to connect to the interet with linux Ubuntu ?

December 28th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
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alex.boghossian asked:


I recently reformated my hard drive and installed linux Ubuntu. Everything has been working exept that i cannot connect to the interet. When I try it just brings up the interet passcode box and says i need to retype it. Is it my router or am I just doing something wrong?

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  1. Comment by Kevan on 29 December 2008:

    Congratulations on your installation of ubuntu! This was a tough one for me as well, but the solution is actually very easy.

    I trust that you’re talking about a wireless connection?

    For me, I kept typing it in, to no avail, and then I realized that the SSID was a HEX code instead of a WPA or ASCII code.

    Try this:
    1) Click the box that says “hide/show password” or something similar, so that you can see the password when you type it in. Make sure it’s visible, and copy it.
    2) Try a different kind of passcode encryption type from the drop-down menu. Wherever your code was printed (on the router, or in your manual), it will probably give you information as to what kind it is (hex vs. ascii, etc.)
    3) Try every kind of encryption from the list, just paste the passcode in each time. Keep the authentication as “open”, but if that doesn’t work, then change that as well, and try the different encryption types again.

    Let me know how it goes!

  2. Comment by l d on 1 January 2009:

    Hopefully your wireless router has a hardwired port!!! If not, go back to Kevan’s posting above.

    If the router does have ports you can use to connect with an ethernet cable, connect a network cable between the router and the computer. Make sure Ubuntu is set up for DNS. If it is, and if your ISP uses DNS, you should connect.

    Now, once you have that working, if you want to use slower, but more flexible (in terms of location) wireless, go back to Kevan’s posting. Wireless can be “vexing” shall we say? Once it connects however, it should be pretty reliable.

    Give one point to Micro$oft for clearly better wireless connectivity. But Linux/Ubuntu is catching up!!!!

    And kudos to Kevan!!!!

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