Wi fi setup in ubuntu

We have a free wifi service in our area. Can any one provide me information how to setup wifi connection in ubuntu. I have vista as another OS. I have connected in vista but i tried in ubuntu but it failed.

May be you can post your question here. . . - so that you can expect more response

Ok then mods, please move this thread to this section

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Wi-fi works in ubuntu, I have got it working.

I use Wifi on Ubuntu, full time. First you need to give details about the wifi hardware and if you haf proper drivers for the hardware working, then info about the wifi network, type of encryption (if any).

In my case, network manager didn't work. So i use WICD.

I have laptop with broadcom wifi 802.11g. I have upgraded the drivers from restricted drivers manager and it shows it is working. However i cant configure network in ubuntu. Please help me to search network in ubuntu and connecting to it. It is a free network and dont require authentication.

Free Wifi - Where do you live

And use Wicd,Its supposedly a lot better at sustaining connections.
I dont use it but my friends do.

Regards,
ray

I lives in pune, PMC provides free wifi internet in some area. Can you please provide some detail how to set up wifi in ubuntu

Wifi works out of the box in Ubuntu. Left click on Network Manager icon(top panel, right-hand side), it will show available wireless networks. Select any one you wish to connect to. Thats it! If you can not see any wireless network, then there must be some configuration problem. In that case post the output for this two command:

Code:

ifconfig

Code:

lspci -v

*polishlinux.org/reviews/networking/NetworkManager.png

make sure ur wireless device is detected by GNU/Linux

o/p of lspci can show it.also run restricted driver manager in ur System>admin> menu to make sure if any drivers are needed to be installed

refer this
*help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo