Linux Problem Connecting to Internet

Ndiswrapper is something like API emulator package that makes a silly WIFI device happy [which recognise only MS 3/4 Windows] to "think" it works under Windows while being work under Linux.

In a word I'm supposing your grandson hadn't picked out when reinstalled your Lin distro Ndiswrap package either he has picked its off for making linux "work better" or its installed but servise Ndis is turned off.

I would advice you if you newbie in linux to shun changing there anything when you cannot predict overall results as well as permit anyone to do so, especially if you are not ready to read a lot of endless mans[docs]. Ubuntu is very friendly for average first installing but its profound tunning demands some skill and experience.

Unfortunatelly I am not Ubuntu user, but I am sure there are a lot of ubuntu community forums where your problem had been already discussed and resolved.

try out this or this. Here's described what a Ndiswrapper is.

Good luck.

Hi Guest - I agree - sounds like your Linux-OS network driver got corrupted. You could try un-installing/re-installing it (while in the Linux environment), and hope that works. If that fails, and you don't find further help here in this forum or from the Ubuntu web sites out there, you may be on the path of having to back up all your data to external media and starting from scratch (reformatting your hard drive partitions and re-installing your OS's in the proper order). Good luck! -april05

I just fixed a video problem in Ubuntu that has been causing a huge amount of trouble for quite a while. This is a totally different problem, but here are a few words to consider adding to a Google:

"dpkg-reconfigure" .... Ubuntu started life as Debian. I don't recall the story but some sort of creative differences, bad breath or something caused the split. But, a lot of their "Debian package" heritage remains. My video problem was partially fixed with "sudo dpkg-reconfigure" and some arguments that were specific to my problem. If you figure out the package name for the WiFi device then you MIGHT be able to fix the configuration this way.

configuration and etc .... Many configuration files are in the directory "/etc/" with the next level of sub-directory usually being somewhat obvious (possibly wifi). As you Google you m;ight add these words. Also, you might CAREFULLY look in there.

error log .... Error messages are sometimes helpful and often not. Error logs are usually more helpful. You might consider looking in /var/log followed by a somewhat obvious directory (possibly wifi). Taking any bit of information you have and adding "error log" to the search might help you go one more step.

Ubuntu has a very helpful community of people. I don't recall how I got on the list but I bet it is easy from http://www.ubuntu.com.

You probably can't fix anything without either being "root" or starting your command line with "sudo".

A lot of things get fixed with "modprobe". I wish I knew more about it.

There are probably some GUI tools out there to do things without typing.

Once again, I don't know if any of this is helpful to your exact problem, but in general it is helpful for working on Ubuntu problems.

Good luck.