[Discuss] My first laptop...bummer

[David Lee]

Hi John

I've tried NM and I found the windows .inf files online. Ubuntu recognizes 
it, lspci finds it, but iwconfig says no wireless.
The annoying part of all this, is the fact that wherever I go, Ubuntu forums 
or wherever, everybody seems to have problems. Some of these people look 
like pretty bright people, so what chance do regular new users have? Are 
there any that work with no problems? Is it because laptops change that fast 
that hardware can't keep up?
I tried looking at cards, but then I find most new laptops use ExpressCards 
(not CardBus). They're not cheap (appx 100.00)
If anyone knows of any cheaper ExpressCards to work with Ubuntu and a D-Link 
wireless router, please let me know :)
Other than that, Ubuntu picked everything else up, so I'm happy with that.

David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Blomfield" <jabfield at shaw.ca>
To: <discuss at vlug.org>
Cc: <discuss at vlug.org>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Discuss] My first laptop...bummer


> 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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