Goswireless driver with dell latitude d610

[blud]

Am pposting in here cause its my understanding gos is a part of the ubuntu family sorry if i am wrong. Anyway i have a dell latitiude d610 which am wanting to run Gos on currently i dual booting but keep finding myself going back to windows as I cant get my wireless working in gos any ideas please anyone

[waterhead]

We will need some detailed information before we can attempt to help you. Please read the thread linked to below.

Wireless Setup - Start Here

It explains the info needed, and how to find it. The second part has a script that you can run to automatically collect the needed info. Running the script is the easiest way to get us the needed info.

[ImChipBrown]

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) and my wireless works fine. When I got this laptop, I mucked around so much that I wiped out Windows. Went I tried to re-install XP, it wouldn't recognize my wireless, ethernet, display - practically nothing. So I tried Ubuntu and it recognized everything. Through Ubuntu, I was able to gain Internet access and find the Dell drivers for Windows.

I have a dual boot setup as well, though I'm rarely in XP.

In Linux Sysinfo, my wireless shows up as

Intel Corp PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 5)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dell B130 laptop integrated WLAN

Hope this helps.

[blud]

ok so i have ran the script file and recieved a huge pile of information of which i dont exactley understand so hopefully someone can make some sense of it

[waterhead]

Although not all of the needed information came out with that script, I think I got enough.

This driver module is loading:

============ lsmod ============
Module                  Size  Used by
ipw2200               146120  0

And here is the wireles connection:

============ ifconfig ============
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:ce:0d:d3:76  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:15600 errors:0 dropped:20 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0xc000 Memory:dfcff000-dfcfffff 

============ iwconfig ============
eth1      unassociated  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Channel=0  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=8/0  
          Retry 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:20   Missed beacon:0

Everything appears to be working. I don't know if GoS has some sort of network connection manager, but that is what you would use to connect. You could also install the Wicd connection manager and use that.

wicd - home

You may want to consider installing a more popular version of Linux, like Ubuntu, until you learn more about Linux.