The wireless didn't work! And the same error as always-you click on the wireless icon, and it says there are no networks. then rebooted again, and turned on the wireless ('always on'setting) in the BIOSĤ. load the BIOS and turned off the Wireless.ģ. This is what I did to get it to work again:ġ. I tried the first kludge, taking the battery out and waiting five minutes. For some reason, no matter how many times I reboot into Ubuntu or XP, the wireless refused to work in either. However, a simple reboot had always fixed this. In the 14 months I've been using the N110 (dual-booting Windows XP and Ubuntu ) I have occasionally gotten this problem where I boot into Ubuntu and the wireless doesn't work. I thought I'd post my experience for the benefit anyone else using the Samsung N110 who has the same wifi problem. for all intensive purposes, they are the same.Īnyway, my wireless problems are identical. I'm actually using a Samsung N110, which is a netbook similar to the NC10 but didn't seem to have the same distribution. So glad to have stumbled across this thread! I am not a total newbie, but unable to solve deeper problems myself - I still have to look up forums and tutorials, and I am not always aware what the commands I use exactly result in. To check wether the module is loaded I used lsmod TX packets:772 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

RX packets:772 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 Inet6-Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000 TX packets:8893 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 RX packets:16053 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metrik:1 Inet6-Adresse: fe80::213:77ff:fead:e3f4/64 Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung Product: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express AdapterĬapabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wirelessĬonfiguration: broadcast=yes driver=ath5k_pci latency=0 module=ath5k multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgĪnd actually now I am stuck - the driver is properly installed, everything worked fine.Įverything else works fine, including cable ifconfigĮth0 Link encap:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:13:77:ad:e3:f4 I consulted the Wireless troubleshooting guide: Then, after trying to activate Gsynaptics for my touchpad and restarting the machine, I realized that the connection had gone and the wireless network is disabled. all the Wifi networks visible in the notification area of my Gnome panel. I had my wireless card up and running on my Samsung NC10 netbook, incl. EDIT | UPDATE: Solution below, this was actually a hardware problem.

Change wifi card on samsung nc10