[PLUG] Wireless Networking on ThinkPad 600E/Xubuntu-7.04
Kenneth B. Hill
ken at scottshill.com
Fri Jul 20 01:13:51 UTC 2007
Rick,
Have you tried installing the base Ubuntu Linux distro? I notice you
installed Xubuntu on your laptop. Is there a reason why you chose
Xubuntu over Ubuntu? I am not familiar with Xubuntu, but I have
installed Ubuntu on a very old (10 year old) laptop just fine and it
detected the Linksys wireless card.
-Ken
On Jul 19, 2007, at 5:14 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Kenneth B. Hill wrote:
>
>> OK. Then a Linksys PCMCIA card should work without any additional
>> configuration work. My Linksys PCMCIA card is:
>
>> I believe I have an extra one if you want to try it.
>
> Ken,
>
> Thank you very much for your offer. The Lucent GOLD card worked
> fine with
> Slackware so there's no reason it would not work with Xubuntu.
> There's a
> configuration problem somewhere, and I am totally unfamiliar with
> the Debian
> family of linuxes to know where to look. The files in /etc/network/
> look OK,
> the configuration for the wired connection -- eth0 -- is the same
> as for the
> wireless -- eth1 -- and it works without any issues at all.
>
> Rich
>
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