My Wireless Woes... - Linux Forums

07-04-2007	#1 (permalink)
RobDude Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 12	My Wireless Woes... I've got a Linksys WUSB300N, and I've installed Ubuntu.... The funniest part about this, is that I also purchased a book called 'Beginning Ubuntu Linux' and it says that, 'in the past' a complaint people had with Linux was lack of driver support...(sorry, I'm not knocking Linux, I just wish people would be more upfront about potential issues). I don't have an actual card I can plug into, I don't have a cat-5 cable, I don't have a floppy drive, but I do have a laptop running Windows so I can get online, but I'm not sure how I can get any files from here onto my computer that now has Ubuntu but no wireless support. I'm running Ubunutu 6.10 - am I basically screwed? I can format Ubuntu, create two partitions, reinstall Windows, have my wireless card work again, download the program that 'wraps' the window's drivers for my wireless card, reinstall Ubunut on the 2nd partition, and hope that Ubuntu will work if I 'wrap' the windows driver?

07-04-2007	#2 (permalink)
MikeTbob Trusted Penguin Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Panther City, Tx Posts: 4,110	The easiest way to solve this problem in the future is to create a small fat32 partition so that you can transfer files between both OS's. Do you have a CD burner? A small handheld USB drive? If you are able, you might just consider downloading a LiveCD like SimplyMepis, Knoppix or Mandriva and hope it will support your card out of the box. You may or may not need NDISwrapper depending on which chipset the wireless card has. __________________ I do not respond to private messages asking for help. Please keep it on the forums only.

07-04-2007	#3 (permalink)
bigtomrodney /etc/init.d/moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Sunny South-East of Ireland Posts: 6,038	You didn't mention which type of Wireless card you have. In Ubuntu run Code: lspci \|grep -i eth lspci \|grep -i wireless lspci \|grep -i internet and post back the results. I have found Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) to be the best distro I have ever used for wireless support. Post back the results above and we'll see what you can do. __________________ Registered Linux user #378740 New members read here / Forum Rules #linuxforums on irc.freenode.net

07-04-2007	#4 (permalink)
RobDude Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 12	Sorry guys - good news is that the laptop I have also has a CD burner! I had no idea (It's not my laptop, hehe). So here's what I've tried so - Viewing the available network devices, it showed no entry for my Wireless card. I went and installed NdisWrapper (1. I downloaded the XP drivers for my wireless card I did 'sudo ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf' I did 'sudo ndiswrapper -m' I did 'gksu gedit /etc/modules' I added 'ndiswrapper' on a new line I did a reboot Ubuntu still does not see the wireless adapter when I go to Network Settings. If I do 'sudo ndiswrapper -l' it shows 'driver installed, hardware present'. Did I mess up - or does this mean that, even with it wrapped, the drivers/card won't work for me?

07-04-2007

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RobDude

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bigtomrodney

You didn't mention which type of Wireless card you have. In Ubuntu run

Code:

lspci |grep -i eth
lspci |grep -i wireless
lspci |grep -i internet

and post back the results. I have found Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) to be the best distro I have ever used for wireless support. Post back the results above and we'll see what you can do.

I'll give that a try - thanks.