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Oh Urgh! I had a wifi dongle with the Realtek 8139. Pain in the rear. Not very stable, needed NDISWRAPPER to load windows drivers into it before it would work. On 17 January 2010 07:45, Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Grant Sewell wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> I have found the SSID of my router, in my case the ESSID. The encryption >>> is not set up, so no type or password. I have tried putting this in the >>> wireless set up in XFCE but to no avail. No wireless connections found. >>> >> >> you OK - "no wireless connections found" is the clue here. It may well >> be >> that your wireless adapter is not 'fully' supported. I have had a >> number of devices that, although it *seems* to be supported, actually >> needs a 'firmware' file in order to work. >> >> Do you know what wireless adapter you have? >> >> Grant. >> >> > > I have run lspci. This is what I assume in the relevant part of the output > > 06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] > 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) > 06:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) > > is that what you need? > > Neil > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html