Comments on: Wireless on a Dell Mini 10v in Ubuntu 9.10

By: garethj

garethj — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:35:02 +0000

Maybe Crunchbang install the proprietary drivers by default? Interested by your post about the Dell Mini 10 trackpad (http://n3wb.com/boolean/archives/2010/01/dell-m...) – will have to give that a go on my 10v and see if that improves it.

By: robcee

robcee — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:34:08 +0000

Weird! I installed Crunchbang on my Mini 10 and had wireless connectivity out of the box. It's not perfect though so I'm wondering if they're using a different driver set. When I get a chance a little later, I'll check out what's installed and possibly update with these.

I blogged about my netbook adventures over here: http://n3wb.com/boolean/archives/tag/netbook/

One other thing I installed to try to improve connectivity was the wicd network manager replacement. Also available for Ubuntu.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:45:52 +0000

thank you, it saves my day

By: Willie_Ha

Willie_Ha — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:17:32 +0000

The same thing happens to me on my hp mini which I think uses the same wireless drivers. Never happened before in either 9.04 or 8.10, aways on the desktop version. The wireless in the liveboot works, but that's about it. Any ideas?

By: xtr3m3

xtr3m3 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:50:31 +0000

Thanks for help.
Working for me

By: garethj

garethj — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:38:45 +0000

Hi Simon – is this on a Dell Mini 10v? These instructions are only applicable to that device. The only suggestion I can make is to give the netbook Internet access using a wired connection and run the update manager to get the latest updates.

Failing that I'd recommend getting advice from the Ubuntu forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/) or reporting the problem to the Ubuntu team (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs) – they should be able to help.

I'm definitely no expert

Good luck!

By: simon

simon — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:58:01 +0000

it wont work!
I think I am in the same situation in terms of operating system version but when I go to hardware drivers nothing shows up. I'm super new to ubuntu and I have no idea what to do.

By: garethj

garethj — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:45:54 +0000

Interestingly, I don't have that option checked and I can connect to wireless networks with no problems - I assume this means the ability to connect to new ones which presumably prompts for root access.

By the way, the root account is generally locked in Ubuntu and so when it asks for you to enter a password for admin purposes, it's your own account password and it's trying to run sudo. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo for details.

By: emperorwlson

emperorwlson — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:07:04 +0000

Thanks, This solved my problem. I installed the desktop version after not being able to bypass the clunky netbook remix interface. After an initial failed install attempt of the driver, a reboot and another attempt, it worked.

As far as not being able to activate your wireless connections, that's probably related to the user permissions. Go to System>Administration>Users and Groups. At the bottom, click the icon next to “Click to make changes” and enter the root password (probably the one you set when you installed 9.10).
Select your user and click Properties. On the User Privileges tab, add the wireless part. If it's your computer, you might as well add them all.

By: Cédric

Cédric — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:50:06 +0000

Thank you very much.

very helpfull