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my wireless network running fine. i'm connected on 1 of laptops (ubuntu 10.04) , on mac mini. however, upgraded wife's dell inspiron ubuntu desktop 8.04 10.04. network manager not pointing networks.

on 1 laptop (and on mac mini) i'm showing 4 networks in area, including mine. on inspiron, nada.

seeing how wife uses laptop internet access, , working fine when 8.04,to not have not option. gotta help! happened?

if helps, connection comes in broadband, , goes wireless via apple airport. else need know?

more information.

on laptop has connection entered:

sudo lshw -c network

, got:


pci (sysfs)
*-network
description: wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:14:a5:d8:f0:c1
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes ip=10.0.1.6 multicast=yes wireless=ieee 802.11bg

on inspiron without connection same command returns:


*-network
description: network controller
product: bcm4312 802.11b/g
vendor: broadcom corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33mhz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:17 memory:f69fc000-f69fffff
*-network
description: ethernet interface
product: 88e8040 pci-e fast ethernet controller
vendor: marvell technology group ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 13
serial: 00:25:64:40:93:8c
capacity: 100mb/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33mhz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.25 firmware=n/a latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:28 memory:f68fc000-f68fffff ioport:de00(size=256)
*-network disabled
description: wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:26:5e:1d:35:68
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=ieee 802.11bg

help?


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