Wireless does not work on Ubuntu 9.04
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Hi all
I install the Ubuntu 9.04 my old Lenovo Y520 laptop, the wirless does not work.My Wireless card is Intel Pro/wireless 2100 card. But I can not enable it. My wired card is working well. Does anyone meet it before.
the ifconfig output is
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0a:e4:5f:6c:30
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:973 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1025 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:574701 (574.7 KB) TX bytes:169249 (169.2 KB)
Interrupt:10
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:f1:58:79:b5
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000 Memory:d0202000-d0202fff
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:480 (480.0 B) TX bytes:480 (480.0 B)
the output of iwconfig is
eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any Nickname:"ipw2100"
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:off
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
I have another question. When my OS is 9.04, there is a icon about network connection on the panel at the top. After I upgraded to 9.10, that icon disappeared. How can I get that back?
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