Matt,
If you can, bring your laptop to the Thursday clinic this week.
several of us with some experience with Ubuntu will be on hand to try
and grok the difficulties and help out. I had some difficulties with
wireless on my wife's laptop when I first set it up, but once I
understood what was needed things went smoothly.
The problem with Wireless is twofold. First, Many companies change the
actual chipset inside the cards and leave the model number the same so
you can't really count on what you are getting. And Second that many
wireless card manufacturers don't release linux drivers. Drivers for
linux tend to be specific to a chipset and not the manufacturer.
What worked in the end was adding the ndis-wrapper code in order to be
able to use the windows drivers for the card under linux. If I might
ask, which model of card is in your laptop? Anyway, hope to see you on
thursday!
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 14:28, Matthew Jarvis wrote:
> toman wrote:
> > conversant. It couldn't find a driver for my linksys wireless card,
> > which older versions of Suse have. All in all, for a distribution that's
> > working that "Linux for
> > everybody" angle it seemed like Linux for almost nobody. I think if I
> > were to inflict a Debian variant on an unsuspecting newbie, it would be
> > Knoppix or its
> > progeny,
>
> I can echo this experience almost word for word from my work this last
> weekend trying to get Linux on my laptop.
>
> The laptop isn't really used for much, just a wireless thing in the
> living room for web surfing mostly. I had intended to put Ubuntu on it
> then changed my mind for something with a smaller bloat....
>
> But for grins I did the Ubuntu install and besides it taking *forever*
> to install, I could never go anywhere after the login - just hangs with
> a blank screen (tan background as I recall. not the grey screen issue
> with displaymanager not loading)....
>
> I ended up installing Damn Small Linux after checking up on things at
> distrwatch, that went pretty smoothly, but I can't get it to see my
> wireless card. I was going to post here asking for help but then again
> it might be good for me to feel a bit more pain researching the problem...
>
> Tried booting up Knoppix in the hopes of seeing what needed to be
> configured for the wireless and hoping the GUI interface would help me,
> but the thing wouldn't boot up with anything other than 'failsafe' mode,
> thus no hardware detection.... kinda defeated the purpose... <g>
>
> If Ubuntu had worked on the laptop it would have been perfect (though a
> bit too much stuff)... but the thing just wouldn't run....
>
>
> Matthew S. Jarvis
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