On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Roy Britten <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/4/8 Gauland, Michael <[email protected]>: >> The next into the modern age is to get my laptop networking >> wirelessly under Ubuntu. I’ve installed ‘ndiswrapper’, and the USB stick >> seems to be working. ‘wifi-radar’ reports finding the router, but I haven’t >> been able to get a connection up. > > And what are you running? > > If any of the 8.10 *buntus, ignore all the out-of-date advice on the > Interwebs regarding installing additional packages. It often (based on > very limited personal experience and some Googling) Just Works if you > leave it as a standard setup and enable the backports repository. (And > update and upgrade forthwith.) Installing ndiswrapper may or may not > adversely affect your results. > > Roy. >
Recommendation: use an atheros card if at all possible. They just work on linux. Unfortunately your laptop may have given you no choice of chipset, but often they are mini-pci and you can swap out a broadcom etc for an atheros based one. I have had no real problems with ubuntu/mythbuntu 8.04 or 8.10 using atheros chipsets, using the standard network manager and no extra packages.
