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dlrohrer2003
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Okay, here it goes. I'm trying to get my usb Linksys WUSB54GSC wireless adaptor to work in Ubuntu. The thing is that it's the only way for me to get out to the net while booted into Ubuntu. It work great while running Windows XP (and thus can get to the net).
All the documentation seems either a little vague or a little hard for me to figure out, and its giving me a head ache. Trying to looking up how to use ndiswrapper while running XP, then rebooting to try it out in Ubuntu, then back to XP again has been a pain in the "colorful metaphor". So I guess I'm looking for the idiots guide here.
It's just that I don't know really what's what since most of my time after installing Ubuntu has been spent in Windows because of this. |
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Cure
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That's the exact USB adapter I used for a while, before just hooking the router up to my computer. Honestly, I never got it to work in Ubuntu, or any Linux distro. I've asked on a few message boards, but their advice never really worked.
By the way: the drivers you need can't be found by searching the CD, so you need to get them off the web, somewhere.
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JoeImp
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Just save all the info you can find about it to a hard drive, boot into ubuntu, open those pages in a browser, follow instructions. We can't give you any more detailed information than the tutorials can, and even if we could, you would be stuck with the same problem of having to switch between windows and ubuntu to read them.
Quote: By the way: the drivers you need can't be found by searching the CD, so you need to get them off the web, somewhere.
Why not? The drivers are on the cd, ndiswrapper loads them. Tutorials on ubuntuforums.com say to use the drivers from the cd.
http://sudan.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=192588
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Newbie
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Yeah most wireless adapters will work with ndiswrapper. What I'm trying to do now is get my wireless card working without ndiswrapper. Thats the real challenge. Ndiswrapper seems hard to setup at first but it is actually pretty simple.
BTW: I hate Ubuntu on laptops. The newer kernel seems pretty flawed when trying to start up. I think from what I've read other places that it has something to do with the battery. More times than not it freezes before it loads or shutsdown. Back to opensuse for me. Well after I get my laptop fixed because my broadcom wireless adapter took a dive about a day ago and doesn't work anymore. Don't know why. My computer recognizes that there is new hardware yet it fails to want to setup the adapter to work with the OS. (This is in Windows). Linux doesn't detect wireless networks anymore like it once did. I know there's nothing wrong with my configuration, because I tried reinstalling the OS and then reinstalling the wireless adapter afterward, but no success. I looked at the card, but nothing seemed wrong with it. Oh well. I'll just wait till HP fixes it since I still have a warranty on it. 
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dlrohrer2003
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| Posted: 22 Aug 2007 03:32:34 pm Post subject: |
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Newbie wrote: Ndiswrapper seems hard to setup at first but it is actually pretty simple
Yeah, thats the thing, I'm relatively new to Linux and need to figure a lot of this stuff out. |
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JoeImp
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dlrohrer2003
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Actually I just got a work-around with a network cable to the router that I was trying to connect to with the wireless adapter. So now I can get out to the web in Ubuntu.
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