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I am using a Dell laptop with a wireless card alreary built in. It is running Vista and is dual booting Ubuntu. I can seem to run wireless on Vista, but not on Ubuntu? |
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Also, being a Dell, you are likely looking at a broadcom chipset. This is poorly supported, but it is "possible" that you'll find proprietary drivers (windows drivers) via System>Administration>Hardware Drivers. If it shows anything there, connect as described above to a hard wired connection and run the Hardware Drivers tool. If none are found (highly likely), you can do the following. 1) Go insane trying to to get poorly thought out forum posts into action with a tool called NDISWrapper and Windows drivers manually. Not recommended. 2) Assuming this an internal card, hire a pro to open it up, lose the Broadcom card and replace with something sane by Intel. Expensive, but ideal long term. 3) Buy this dongle and enjoy Ubuntu out of the box. Buy it at NewEgg.com and DO NOT compile the drivers from the CD - works out of the box, do NOT try to install anything. |
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You need to connect the Ubuntu box to the net directly via wired (ethernet) connection in order to download the drivers for your wireless card. |
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Try moving that computer to your router and connect it to your ethernet port, then search for drivers of your wireless card. That might help. If it cant find any, well, i think you cant do anything about it. Just hook up to ethernet. |
