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Ubuntu sound and wireless problems

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I've got my friends desktop here and hes trying to get Ubuntu on it. We've installed Feisty and most of it went well, except for wireless and the sound. It detects both the wireless card and the sound card and says both work properly, but neither is working. The network card can even see my network, but cant connect, and I've input all the codes and settings properly (and of course I allowed its MAC into my router).

The wireless card is a belkin Wireless G USB network adapter. It works fine when we plug it into my computer running Sabayon, it connects and everything.

The sound is Realtek ALC861VD built into a Biostar NF61S motherboard. Its detected properly, but it wont make any sounds and all volume is set to maximum and the speakers are turned on. The sound also worked in a previous version of Feisty.

Suggestions are very appriciated as its driving me to drink right now! *goes off to find some beer*
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Two quick suggestions. For the wireless try and connect without any security first. Then you can at least eliminate a few variables that way.

Try getting alsamixergui from apt/synaptic (assuming you can use a wired connection). It has many more controls than the gnome volume mixer. You can see if something weird is muted.
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Originally Posted by TwilightVampire
The sound is Realtek ALC861VD built into a Biostar NF61S motherboard. Its detected properly, but it wont make any sounds and all volume is set to maximum and the speakers are turned on. The sound also worked in a previous version of Feisty.
Sounds like this bug might be relevant (and would explain why its just some current, 2.6.20-xx kernels that have the issue

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s....20/+bug/94373

This also looks relevant:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=405065
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