[Durham] WiFi does not work on Ubuntu 12.04LTS

Oliver Burnett-Hall olly at burnett-hall.co.uk
Sat Sep 22 16:08:40 UTC 2012


On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:07:11 +0100 (BST)
Bill and Anne Pritchard <wdnp2 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> The driver is seen by network manager(wlan0) but the website fails to
> load after a short time. Info below.(The Netgear driver is wlan1)

You've still got ndiswrapper loaded:

> william at william-netbook:~$ lsmod
[snip]
> ndiswrapper           192268  0 

I'd be much happier diagnosing this if you get rid of ndiswrapper, I
think it might be trying to set up this interface but failing.  Can you
blacklist this module (I put some instructions for this in my last
message) and see what happens?

- olly



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