[PLUG] Ubuntu live cd and wireless

[Chris Dawson]

ndiswrapper is not worth the trouble.  Go buy a USB wifi adapter
(after researching for driver support); I think mine is this one:

http://netgear.com/products/details/WPN111.php

I plugged it into Warty and it worked like a charm with zero extra
configuration.  Should work no problem with Breezy, I assume.

Chris

On 12/22/05, Jason R. Martin <nsxfreddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/22/05, Jason R. Martin <nsxfreddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/22/05, Ted Kubaska <tkubaska at ieee.org> wrote:
> > > I tried out the Unbuntu live cd on my laptop (Dell Latitude D800). Ubuntu
> > > doesn't recognize my wireless card (Dell Wireless WLAN 1350 WLAN Mini-P).
> > > Ubuntu accesses the Internet just fine with an Ethernet cable. Windows
> > > recognizes and uses the Dell Wireless card.
> > >
> > > Google points me to a description of this problem which others have
> > > experienced. http://thefinleys.com/dell_d810/ The fix described there
> > > involves ndiswrapper and a BIOS change for  my Dell.
> > >
> > > This seems a lot to do for "Linux for human beings." Has anyone else come
> > > across this issue and what have you done?
> >
> > Yes, anyone with a Broadcom wireless NIC who wants to run Linux has
> > run across this problem.  You can a) use ndiswrapper with the Windows
> > driver as suggested, b) complain to Broadcom/Dell/etc. that they don't
> > support Linux, or c) support the open-source reverse-engineered
> > bcm43xx project, which is not likely to provide you with a working
> > driver for quite a while.
> >
> > That's life when a hardware vendor refuse to release specifications
> > and/or drivers.
>
> The project, incidentally, is located at http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/.
>
> Jason
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