Ubuntu Linux Wireless

I'm pretty new to this Linux stuff, and I'm sitting here in class
trying to figure out how to make Ubuntu connect to the school's
wireless network. Windows connects automatically, as you can obviously
tell, but I don't have the slightest idea of what to do for Linux...
I'm gonna need some pretty basic instructions because I'm used to
things being done automatically a majority of the time.

My wireless card is a Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN.

Help? Friends?

The 2 commands you'll want which should shed some light will be
ifconfig and iwconfig. iwconfig lets you see the wireless setting for
the card, including whether it has associated with the accesspoint
correctly. you'll want to check and see if it has the APs MAC address
info. If not, it isn't correctly connected yet, if so, than you should
be talking to the AP properly, and may only lack an IP address. In any
case, please feel free to bring it by the clinic tonight. Perhaps we
can help with the slow boot time as well, or help get wireless working
in your DSL setup.

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:52:02 -0700, jubby2000 wrote:

> I'm pretty new to this Linux stuff, and I'm sitting here in class
> trying to figure out how to make Ubuntu connect to the school's
> wireless network. Windows connects automatically, as you can obviously
> tell, but I don't have the slightest idea of what to do for Linux...
> I'm gonna need some pretty basic instructions because I'm used to
> things being done automatically a majority of the time.
>
> My wireless card is a Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN.
>
> Help? Friends?

Assuming you do have the wireless card set up to start with - start menu
-> system -> networking usually does it for me.

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> I'm pretty new to this Linux stuff, and I'm sitting here in class
> trying to figure out how to make Ubuntu connect to the school's
> wireless network. Windows connects automatically, as you can obviously
> tell, but I don't have the slightest idea of what to do for Linux...
> I'm gonna need some pretty basic instructions because I'm used to
> things being done automatically a majority of the time.
>
> My wireless card is a Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN.
>
> Help? Friends?

Not familiar with Ubantu but usually, assuming the network is open, all
you need to do is either "dhclient <iface_" or "pump <iface>" where
<iface> is the name of your interface. Find this with the 'iwconfig'
command. If 'iwconfig' doesn't give you an interface you'll probably
need to install drivers for your card.