2009/4/8 Nick Rout <[email protected]>: > 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 If any of the 8.10 *buntus, ignore all the out-of-date advice on the 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.
Intel wifi cards have Intel-written drivers in the Linux Kernel sources. They work perfectly too. I have an eleven megabit one you could buy if you want it. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
