How do I select Wireless radio portions in Ubuntu?

Question

Bear with me, to be honest I have no idea what Wireless radio portions are.... At my school, I was told my the user support that the wireless network in my dorm uses 801.11 A/B/G/N. For some reason, the wireless in my room doesn't work. However, other buildings use only A/B/G, they say. In any other building, my wireless works fine.

How do I tell my system to use the G portion only? (As requested by user support in the email I received).

Here are the various logs/output requested:

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 28 '12 at 01:54

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All N-radios also support G. The difference is that N is faster; you may be having problems staying connected because your wireless card radio keeps trying to use a weaker N-signal instead of the stronger G-signal in some places.

Let's make this an answer in progress. Please pastebin the commands dmesg, lshw -c network and lsmod, and edit your question with the links. We'll go from there.

answered Aug 28 '12 at 01:54

ish

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Never used Pastebin before, so I just posted a link to the paste in my edit. – Ryan McClure Aug 28 '12 at 02:15
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Ryan, to make things more convenient, please see the instructions here to easily pastebin single commands/files and include the three links -- thanks!: Please share the content or output of the following commands/files to better help us troubleshoot your problem (instructions in this answer): command(s): dmesg, lshw -c network and lsmod – ish Aug 28 '12 at 02:32
Did as instructed. It is now in the edit. Thanks for this link – Ryan McClure Aug 28 '12 at 02:38
Bump :P Just kidding – Ryan McClure Sep 26 '12 at 04:03
@RyanMcClure: so sorry, completely forgot about this. Thanks for the reminder. On it! – ish Sep 26 '12 at 04:47
No worries, I just thought I'd bring this post up so that it can be answered for the future. :) – Ryan McClure Sep 26 '12 at 16:09

How do I select Wireless radio portions in Ubuntu?

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