[PLUG] Xubuntu: Getting Wireless Networking Running Post-Installation [SEMI-FIXED]

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   I'd appreciate guidance and directions to get this working this week; as
> a last resort, I'll bring it to Sunday's clinic for help from all the
> experts there.

Everyone (including John and Keith who tried to get wireless working at the
clinic today):

   I have it running!!! Well, it's up and recognizes the neighborhood
networks, including ours. I found a blog page that showed the problem and
the fix. Turns out that running rfkill told me there's another driver with a
soft lock on the radio: acer_wmi. Removing that from the loaded modules
'modprobe -r acer_wmi' and blacklisting that module solved the problem.

   The one remaining ubuntu issue with which I need help is getting the
system to 'reach' the network. I entered a bunch of local IP addresses with
host names in /etc/hosts, and edited /etc/resolv.conf but to no avail. Tried
'/etc/init.d/networking restart' but that did no good either.

   When I try to ping a host on the local network, or one outside, I see
'network is unreachable.' What do I do to fix this?

TIA,

Rich