Ubutu has the NDIS wrapper within the install???? I'm going to try my Linksys after I get the bits on my test machine. Sam. Richard Hoffbeck wrote: >Kraig Jones wrote: > > > >>[snip ...] >> >> > > > > >>Anyway, good luck with Ubuntu. I think you'll like it. >> >>Kraig >> >> >> >> >> >Ditto on Ubuntu. I've been running FC3 on my stuff because I'm working >through the SELinux setup to secure a server. It turns out that FC3 is >really slow running under VMWare on my machine at work and sort of >dragged on my laptop at home. So just for yucks I downloaded Ubuntu and >loaded it into a new VM and was thoroughly impressed. So then I tried it >on the laptop at home and everything just works. This is a distribution >I'd be will to support for friends and relatives :-) > >Last weekend I hit BB and CompUSA and picked up a couple of cheap >802.11g cards with the hopes that one of them would have some type of >support. I figured I'd have to recompile a kernel, add a bunch of >patches, etc. to get things to work. It turns out Ubuntu installs with >ndiswrapper so it took 5 minutes (most of which was spent trying to find >where I'd put paper copy of the WEP key) and its been up and running >fine ever since. I've since been told that if the card was installed >when I did the original install it would have been detected and set up >automatically. > >BTW, if anyone is looking for cheap 54Mbps wireless stuff, BB is selling >the D-Link 802.11g AP with a PC card for $20 after rebate. CompUSA has >the Hawking in PCI, USB or PC card for $10 after rebate. I haven't tried >the Hawking but the D-Link seems OK and is using the Atheros chip set. I >think the Hawking is a Prism 54 but I have no idea if it is the old >version that will work on Linux or the new version that offloads a bulk >of the functionality into the drivers and won't work. > >--rick > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > >