Hi everyone. I'm new to this list. I have a rather basic question that is Kansas City specific. I've set up a box which is running Ubuntu Linux. I'd like to connect it to our home wireless network. We have two Windoze machines connected using LinkSys equipment to Internet being served up by Time Warner. Does anybody have suggestions about which wireless card will work with my Linux box? Also, does one run the executable file on the CD or does one have to copy files directly? I found the networking app on the Ubuntu menu and it looks like I can configure the network (network name, WEP) once I get a device installed. Thanks for any help on these basics. Chuck
I wouldn't recommend this as your first choice, but if you get stuck with a card that doesn't have support, I have had (mostly) good luck using NDISWRAPPER with the Windows drivers on Ubuntu. Let us know how it goes, and you can email me here or directly for questions on NDISWRAPPER. Rick Piper On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 18:35 -0600, Chuck wrote:
Hi everyone. I'm new to this list.
I have a rather basic question that is Kansas City specific. I've set up a box which is running Ubuntu Linux. I'd like to connect it to our home wireless network. We have two Windoze machines connected using LinkSys equipment to Internet being served up by Time Warner.
Does anybody have suggestions about which wireless card will work with my Linux box? Also, does one run the executable file on the CD or does one have to copy files directly?
I found the networking app on the Ubuntu menu and it looks like I can configure the network (network name, WEP) once I get a device installed.
Thanks for any help on these basics.
Chuck _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
Richard Piper wrote:
I wouldn't recommend this as your first choice, but if you get stuck with a card that doesn't have support, I have had (mostly) good luck using NDISWRAPPER with the Windows drivers on Ubuntu.
Let us know how it goes, and you can email me here or directly for questions on NDISWRAPPER.
I'm interested, so please tell me more. Is this something that can be found via the package manager? Chuck
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 20:51 -0600, Chuck wrote:
I'm interested, so please tell me more. Is this something that can be found via the package manager?
It can be on certain distributions. But please don't buy a card that requires NDISwrapper. There are some wonderful open source drivers for certain cards and you get more functionality with the open source drivers. -- Jason Clinton <me@jasonclinton.com>
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 20:51 -0600, Chuck wrote:
I'm interested, so please tell me more. Is this something that can be found via the package manager?
Chuck
I think it was mentioned elsewhere in this thread that the short answer is yes. I think Kubuntu even includes it as part of the interface. (My experience with Kubuntu was not a good as with Ubuntu. YMMV.) I have two wireless cards that use a TI chipset (ACX-100/111). Although there is an ACX driver which shows up each time I update the kernel, I can't get it to work consistently. NDISWrapper works for this card. My advice: Spend the extra money needed to get a wireless nic that works with Ubuntu out of the box. Mine works, but I now have extra steps each time I update that you probably don't want to have to take. Maybe others here can help with choices of cards that DO work? Rick P.
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 12:22 -0600, Richard Piper wrote:
Maybe others here can help with choices of cards that DO work?
Buy from any manufacturer where the driver status is marked "stable". <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html> -- Jason Clinton <me@jasonclinton.com>
--- Jason Clinton <me@jasonclinton.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 12:22 -0600, Richard
Piper wrote: Maybe others here can help with choices of cards that DO work?
Buy from any manufacturer where the driver status is marked "stable".
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html> ...and hope that the manufacturer doesn't switch chipsets while retaining the same model number... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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