You may consider upgrading to Intrepid, your Wireless card should be supported out of the box in Intrepid. If you want to stay with Hardy, then the post #62 on this page ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=879134&page=7 ) may be of some help, you can try following the instructions and see if it works.
On 29/12/2008, Dharan P Deepak - <[email protected]> wrote: > I've Hardy installed in my Laptop, The usb issue is not solved. I decided to > buy a NIC. > > Deepak > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:28 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dharan P Deepak - wrote: >> > >> > Now it's time to solve another problem. >> > >> > I recently bought a dell studio. and installed ubuntu. But I'm unable >> > to get my wifi working. It's an Intel WiFi Link 5100 Half Mini-c . I >> > tried so many ways.. Nothing works. Ndiswrapper says the hardware is >> > present but unable to operate the hardware even after that. Someone >> > Please help me with that. This is the only way for me to share my >> > internet connection. Is there any possible way to get this work done ? >> > >> >> Intel Wifi Link 5100 Half Mini Card - has a working linux driver >> released by Intel, as was announced on the Linux Kernel Mailing List - >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/13/435 >> The driver should be there in 2.6.27. So the card is expected to work >> out of the box from Intrepid onwards (I don't have any first hand >> experience about this card, so cannot confirm). The driver was not >> there before 2.6.27, hence the card doesn't work out of the box in >> Hardy. >> Are you running Intrepid or Hardy on your Dell Studio? >> >> BTW, just for curiosity, what happened to your USB modem issue? Did it >> work? >> >> >> -- >> Sambit Bikas Pal >> MS 3rd Year >> Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, >> HC 7, Sector-III Salt Lake, Kolkata-700106 >> Web: http://www.botcyb.org >> OpenPGP Key: >> http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 >> >> NB: Kindly send mails as "text/plain". >> >> -- >> ubuntu-in mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >> > > > > -- > print _me; > Name error : '_me' not defined > > print $techblog; > http://nextdoornerd.blogspot.com/ > > print $personal-blog; > http://dharanpdeepak.blogspot.com/ > -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 3rd Year Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, HC 7, Sector-III Salt Lake, Kolkata-700106 Web: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 NB: Kindly send mails as "text/plain". -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
