Ubuntu can't find my wireless card.
Electroholic, Thu Apr 20 2006, 09:48AMLaptop Emachines M5410
Trying to run Ubuntu live with a cd,
tired of windows crashing...
The Ubuntu live cd boots up perfectly, even works with the wxga.
but when I try to setup wireless, it just couldn't find my built-in wireless card.
I can write pascal perfectly but I'm a total noob in networking
,so what should I do?
Re: Ubuntu can't find my wireless card.
Steve Conner, Thu Apr 20 2006, 11:52AM
Some wireless chipsets just don't have a Linux driver. I seem to remember there is a piece of software that lets you use the Windows driver under Linux. It's called ndiswrapper or something.
Before you mess with that, check that the problem isn't just that the driver wasn't supplied with Ubuntu. Even finding out what wireless chipset you have can be a hassle. One of the best wireless FAQs for linux is written by Jean Tourrilhes of Hewlett Packard:
I forget how to identify the chipset, but that site should tell you how to do it, or a google search for your laptop's name plus "wireless linux"
If you do need to install extra drivers, you'll soon get tired of having to reinstall them every time you boot, so maybe it's time to outgrow the live CD and install linux to your hard drive?
Steve Conner, Thu Apr 20 2006, 11:52AM
Some wireless chipsets just don't have a Linux driver. I seem to remember there is a piece of software that lets you use the Windows driver under Linux. It's called ndiswrapper or something.
Before you mess with that, check that the problem isn't just that the driver wasn't supplied with Ubuntu. Even finding out what wireless chipset you have can be a hassle. One of the best wireless FAQs for linux is written by Jean Tourrilhes of Hewlett Packard:
I forget how to identify the chipset, but that site should tell you how to do it, or a google search for your laptop's name plus "wireless linux"
If you do need to install extra drivers, you'll soon get tired of having to reinstall them every time you boot, so maybe it's time to outgrow the live CD and install linux to your hard drive?
Re: Ubuntu can't find my wireless card.
Bjørn, Thu Apr 20 2006, 12:09PM
Looking at the properties for the device in windows should give you the name of the driver and some other information that should help formulating helpful google searches.
It may turn out to be impossible to get it to work or it may turn out the be some simple tinkering.
Bjørn, Thu Apr 20 2006, 12:09PM
Looking at the properties for the device in windows should give you the name of the driver and some other information that should help formulating helpful google searches.
It may turn out to be impossible to get it to work or it may turn out the be some simple tinkering.
Re: Ubuntu can't find my wireless card.
tecNik, Thu Apr 20 2006, 01:30PM
Sounds like you using the "brezey badger" release of Ubuntu (5.1) This has some issues with wireless cards. It took me like 2 hours and loads of restarts just to get a D-LinkDWL G650+ to work. I finally got it to work by using the Windows drivers that came with the card and ndiswrapper. Just google, for loads of information on using ndiswrapper. You'll be lucky if you can get it to work with the live CD. I think you'll have to do an install.
tecNik, Thu Apr 20 2006, 01:30PM
Sounds like you using the "brezey badger" release of Ubuntu (5.1) This has some issues with wireless cards. It took me like 2 hours and loads of restarts just to get a D-LinkDWL G650+ to work. I finally got it to work by using the Windows drivers that came with the card and ndiswrapper. Just google, for loads of information on using ndiswrapper. You'll be lucky if you can get it to work with the live CD. I think you'll have to do an install.
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