That probably means that your laptop uses a wireless adapter from a manufacturer that does not care about Linux users, and simply hasn't written a driver for it, or released enough technical info for the Linux community to develop one.
If your laptop would have had a wireless adapter that would have Linux support, gOS would have recognised it, and would have had a driver available for it instantly. It is still possible to use the adapter, by faking a windows driver interface for it and installing the windows driver, but it is a "hack". The "windows driver interface" is called a "wrapper", and in this case (for wireless adapters) its called the "ndiswrapper" (after the "ndis" windows mechanism that does this job). But before you can do anything you MUST know exactly which adapter is used, or even which chipset is used, (some manufacturers switch to an other set of chips on their adapater without changing the adapters name, so even if you have the "same adapter" it still may need a - different- driver. If you know the chipsets name, you can google for it, using the name and "Linux", to see if a beta version of a Linux driver in development might be available for install, if not you can try to install the "ndiswrapper" (just google for it, and "ubuntu"), and after you did that you can try to locate a windows driver and install that, there are many detailed explanations how to do it. On 26 sep, 19:59, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed gOS today, and can't get networking to work. > > I'm using gOS Base on a Acer Extensa 4420 laptop and networking is not > working. > I'm typing this out of Windows Vista. Don't take this personally, but > no Linux distro has gotten my networking right. I've never been able > to use Linux on the Internet for more than a few hours... > > Anyone have some suggestions?! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
