Wireless on Ubuntu

A bunch of links to get things going:

This worked in Ubuntu 7.10 and I think 8.04. Haven’t tried this with 8.10.

This finally worked in Ubuntu 8.10. Installed ndiswrapper from repositories because couldn’t get it to compile with new kernel. Also, I probably need to blacklist ssb, as mentioned there and also here
in one of the first comments about ndiswrapper -l giving information about alternate driver. Don’t know yet if wired connection will work after that, I’m scared to reboot now.

Also, this is a list of wireless cards supported in Ubuntu. From what I see it’s a lottery, there’s no real way of telling if a particular card will work out of the box with a particular system.

I’d better reboot now, before I start working on the system and then my wireless stops working.

Wow, the wireless does work after reboot! Haven’t tested the cable.

Wireless in Ubuntu part 2

This wireless thing makes me sick. I’m always scared to even start, because always always always something goes wrong. I’ve reinstalled my system again (turns out I didn’t really need to, it was some sort of a hardware problem – which disappeared all by itself by the way) and there is the issue of wireless. Again.

So to make note off the things I did today (took me amazingly short to figure everything out), here it goes:

• first, follow the instructions here. I didn’t bother to compile ndiswrapper, the packaged version worked again. I needed to install ndiswrapper and ndiswrapper-utils.
• second, if everything goes well and the light still isn’t on, try this workaround. It changes the order of loading modules. This is the last step, and this time everything works. Yay!