Solved Issue XBMCbuntu Wireless option?

Living in an apartment, it's difficult to run an rj45 through walls and under carpets. I wanted to simplify the purpose of my laptop in the bedroom so I installed XBMCbuntu per the Wiki instructions, but there's no wireless? I have never played with a linux system, so if there is a way to run some type of script to install a wireless driver, or some other way such as hosting the drivers on a thumbdrive, please let me know. If you have a tutorial on it, I would love to learn.

The system requirements did not mentioned a physical connection, and I didn't think it would have mattered.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBM..._XBMCbuntu

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Eden 11 is easy...exit into XBMCBuntu. (The little circle in the bottom left)

Login to Xbmcbuntu. Network setup is in the bottom right.

I will have a look when I get home, but if it matters the installation was setup so that it logs straight into XBMC. Inside of that software, I couldn't find a wireless network setting. I don't recall seeing a circle in the bottom left within XBMC software, just the "playlist" and shutdown options.

when you installed you had the option to connect to wireless. If you did not do that you can re-install or follow the advice from John410312

I didn't have the option to connect to wireless...BUT...

@hunterx. Click the Shutdown options button and click EXIT. You'll be presented with a dropdown box either XBMC or XBMCbuntu. Select XBMCbuntu. Select login as XBMC (not other) and whatever your password was you set during install.

I did not have the option to connect to wireless, but I was connected directly to an RJ45 during installation (as I am accustomed to for Windows installations). I wonder if I were to get that option if I installed it without being plugged in directly.

John, thanks, I will look for that option. There's a lot of wiki articles on running commands from the terminal, I just can't figure out how to get to that point. I will look for that option later.

Thanks again.

I got into the XBMC Buntu OS, and found the wireless but it must not have the right wireless drivers. Now I need to figure out how to install them...

I've ran through the guides on here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDo...de/Drivers

running the LSHW command gives me a list of all my hardware and drivers. There seems to be 2 *-network for my wireless...one is in a disabled state.

Quote:*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11a/b/g
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:17 memory:efdfc000-efdfffff

*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00;19:7e:8c:49:ff
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: braodcast=yes driver=b43 driverversion=3.0.0-17-generic firmware=N/A multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

Here is the IWCONFIG command results:

Quote:wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on

Unfortunately I know my wireless is working and on. The bluetooth light is on, and I actively used the wireless up until minutes before I installed XBMCbunto.

Found this on ubuntu forums, and it worked

1)Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
2)Dell
3)Latitude D620

Everything works out of the box but Wi-Fi. To enable it, install two packages:

b43-fwcutter
firmware-b43-installer

They can be installed from the Software Center or through the command line:

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

A reboot is not necessary - after the install is complete you should have working wifi and the wifi light should light up as well.

hunterx, I have a Dell too and it also worked. Thanks!