[ale] Ubuntu and Wireless post install?

[Paul Cartwright]

On Sat December 10 2005 10:03 am, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> ? Anyone have enough experience with Ubuntu to help with getting
> wireless working on my laptop? ?I did the install by pcmcia wired
> connection. ?I found an unused wireless card I want to put in it.

personally, I don't have a laptop (yet), but I'm looking for one 
soon... and I'm also looking into running Kubuntu on it. Right now I 
USE SUSE 10.0

check out this web site:
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Networking/Carnegie-Mellon-NetReg-NetMon-1031.shtml

netreg looks like a program you might need,
>
> ? The device manager sees the device but doesn't seem to load the
> modules and the eth1 device doesn't load. ?Anyone got the next step
> in the ubuntu way.

and this, from a UBUNTU Q&A session on installation:
http://www.linux.org/dist/reviews/ubuntu_breezy.html

My Marconi Moment

I took advantage of this Ubuntu install to take the plunge into the 
wireless world. I'm kind of a late bloomer when it comes to these 
types of things. Adding another network cable to the collection always 
seemed simple enough. After moving to another city, however, running 
cables all over the place didn't seem so easy or desirable anymore. I 
had just read Linux writer Tom Adelstein's informative article about 
setting up wireless networking on Ubuntu 
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/lf/view/46385/ 
. According to Tom, this task had taken him less time than with 
Windows. Since I've never set up a wireless network on Windows, I 
can't verify this claim. I do know that setting it up with Ubuntu 
Breezy Badger was quick and fairly painless. I purchased a Concentric 
wireless access point and an accompanying Concentric card. The card 
happened to have the same chipset as the article that Tom had 
installed in his article, Ralink 2500. After assigning the wireless 
access point an IP in my local range, I proceeded to follow Tom's 
instructions and via Synaptic, I installed ndiswrapper, ndisgtk, 
ndiswrapper-utils and ndiswrapper-source. Next, I restarted the GNOME 
menus (killall gnome-panel) and like Tom, I was pleased to see the 
menu item for installing Windows wireless drivers. I put the CD that 
came with the card in the drive and clicked on 'Install New Driver' 
and found the Windows XP driver, an *.inf file, on the CD. I returned 
to the networking setup in the system menu and de-activated my 
Ethernet card and activated the wireless card. And it worked. Like 
Marconi so many years ago, I had received my first wireless packet. 
This easy setup of the wireless system really xalleviated some of the 
frustration I felt with the video codec situation.



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Paul Cartwright
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