Olá! Bom dia a todos do fórum.
Após pesquisar, nessa área do fórum, nada do que li a respeito de "wlan", "wireless", "rede" etc deu conta do meu problema em conectar-navegar com as distros Ubuntu 10.04 e 10.10, por meio wireless.
Não tive esse problemas com as versões anteriores (9s, 8s), mas nas versões 10s, só consigo navegar com cabo.
No ícone, na parte superior à direita, vêem as mensagens "rede sem fio está desabilitada" e a "habilitar rede sem fio" está desativada.
Pelos comando do prompt eu tive essas respostas:
sudo lshw -C network*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:40:a7:17:c4:95
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp
mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LKNAPI
duplex=full ip=192.168.1.5 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII
speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:42 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f6000000-f6000fff memory:f2000000-
f200ffff memory:f2020000-f203ffff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
bus info: usb@1:2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:25:d3:2a:d9:d5
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8187 driverversion=2.6.35-22-generic
firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
iwconfig wlan0wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
nm-toolNetworkManager Tool
State: connected
- Device: wlan0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
Type: 802.11 WiFi
Driver: rtl8187
State: unavailable
Default: no
Aguardo ajuda. Muito obrigado.