[erhnam]

On your advice I had a look at the 'how-to' guide and I've managed to get wireless tools installed, here's what I've done so far...

1) Went to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo

2) From the command line typed: 1) sudo apt-get install wireless-tools
3) Typed ispci: reveals my wireless is using a Atheros chipset
4) Typed iwconfig: got the following back...

lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr: off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management: off
Link Quality: 0 Signal level: 0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid: 0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries: 0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Am I right in thinking it has recognised my wireless card...or, not?

On the plus side I've got further than I had before.

I'm going to keep going on this but if anyone has any advice i'd appreciate it, thanks.

I have wireless working but I needed to upgrade to 2.6.30:

Code:

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-headers-2.6.30-020630_2.6.30-020630_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-headers-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-image-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-source-2.6.30_2.6.30-020630_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux*.dep
sudo reboot

Wifi has Tx-Power=20 dBm

Code:

(T: XBMCLive)xbmc@XBMCLive:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated  
          Tx-Power=20 dBm  
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

pan0      no wireless extensions.

After this you should be able to use your wifi within XBMC. Point to wlan0 for this!

or do:

Code:

iwlist wlan0 scanning
sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode managed

Code:

wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:1C:B3:AD:CB:DE
                    Channel:7
                    Frequency:2.442 GHz (Channel 7)
                    Quality=41/70  Signal level=-69 dBm  
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:"AirPort Extreme"
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                    Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Mode:Master
                    Extra:tsf=0000001f80452180
                    Extra: Last beacon: 6860ms ago
                    IE: Unknown: 000F416972506F72742045787472656D65
                    IE: Unknown: 010882848B0C12961824

Code:

sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "AirPort Extreme"

etc, see this site for more info: http://wme.cs.kent.edu/kkaraden/mobile_server/