[Discuss] My first laptop...bummer

[John Blomfield]

Before you do anything drastic perhaps you could tell us all exactly what you have running. i.e. you mentioned Ubuntu, are you running NetworkManager?  What basic diagnostics have you tried using wireless tools, what do you get from /sbin/ifconfig?

John Blomfield 

----- Original Message -----
From: David Lee <misterlee at shaw.ca>
Date: Monday, January 7, 2008 6:55 am
Subject: [Discuss] My first laptop...bummer
To: discuss at vlug.org

> Good evenin' 
> 
> I just bought my first laptop. It's a Toshiba with an Atheros 
> 5007(G?) wire less adapter. I bought it 'cause the Atheros 
> website said it was a big fan of Linux etc, etc.
> Well. Long story short..no wireless networking. First I had 
> Vista off. Installed 7 or 8 distros but nothing "just worked". 
> I've never had any problems with my 3 desktops and networking (wired).
> I put on Ubuntu, the sound works, I've got proper screen 
> resolution and other than no wireless, I could like it. I put 
> Vista back on and dual boot with Ubuntu, switching to Vista for 
> mobility.I tried to use ndiswrapper, but the .inf files are 
> stuff like oem.17 and the like. My limited knowledge leaves 
> something to be desired.
> This laptop has a card slot , so I wondered if I bought an 
> inexpensive wireless card from Futureshop (Christmas gift 
> cards), that I might have better luck getting my wireless 
> network going. I did buy a D-link wireless router that seem to 
> work fine.
> 
> The whole idea of a laptop was so I could have my own Linux 
> machine. My wife gets real annoyed when I accidently format her 
> Windows partitions. :)
> 
> David
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