I think I had to use the package manager to install the ndiswrapper-utils but the necessary kernel modules were there. I would imagine that the install would have added the utilities if the card had needed them but I had my old Orinco card inserted at the time. --rick Sam MacDonald wrote: > 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 >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list