I believe I have an intermittent hardware fault whereby the wireless network hardware. Under Vista I sometimes get an amber LCD indication that wireless networking is operable (and it works then) but after moving the notebook the LCD is not lit, wireless networking is disabled and Vista prompts for drivers. Before installing Ubuntu I made sure that Vista was recognising the wireless hardware correctly.
When I ran dmesg it reported that the problem was to do with the wireless kill switch being turned on. From what I found on the Internet this seems to be a common problem. On the Acer 5720 there is no BIOS option to disable the kill switch and the Function F2 toggle does not work under Ubuntu 8.04. I've tried various utilities for wireless network management etc. None no about the N speed and most don't know about anything except WEP for security. I did find that 2 of my neighbours wireless networks could be scanned whilst my own - less than a metre away - did not. Congratulations on Ubuntu. It has reached the point where the only issues on my list are wireless network support and TV support. The latter is a separate issue. It strikes me as though Beta has recognised the hardware. -- Intel Wireless 4965AGN (iwl4965) & network-manager doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194091 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
