Enable Wireless in Ubuntu 9.04
May 4, 2009I have a HP 510 laptop with ubuntu 9.04 on it. Everything worked fine until one day when it just lost its wireless connection. When I looked at network manager it say that the device not manage.
After searching the net for a long time without finding a solution I found a website that finely had a solution.
I am a newbie to Ubuntu and Linux so I do not know what it did but it seemed to resolved the problem. The article as written in 2006 for Dapper Drake but is seems to also work on 9.04.
To update the source list run the following command
sudo apt-get
sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant
sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome network-manager
sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
Comment out everything other than “lo” entries in that file and save the file
Create a file called /etc/default/wpasupplicant, add entry ENABLED=0 and save the file
sudo touch /etc/default/wpasupplicant
Reboot your system or use the following command
sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart
Hope it helps.
Source : http://www.debianadmin.com/enable-wpa-wireless-access-point-in-ubuntu-linux.html
