Patch for wireless?

Seachmall

I finally downloaded and installed Ubuntu however I'm having a problem with my wireless connection, I can't connect. I can connect wired so I'm thinking that Ubuntu can't reccognise my wireless card. Is their a patch to fix that? I've an Inspiron 1300 if thats any help.

Thanks,
S.

aidan_walsh

You could use NDISwrapper to use the Windows drivers, if you don't have a hangup about it.

humbert

Might be worth your while running commands like lspci to determine what wireless card you have, ifconfig -a to see if it is recognising the device, iwconfig if you see a few devices and aren't sure which one is wireless.

I'd a quick google and didn't find one standard driver for the Dell Wireless 1370 WLAN MiniPCI Card card that is listed for the Inspiron 1300 so it might be simpler as aidan suggests to use ndiswrapper and see if that works.

Seachmall

Yeah, I'm trying that, thanks aidan, however I'm having difficulty with the whole install thing. I'm straight from windows so this is kinda new to me but I'll learn, hopefully.

EDIT -- I ran the lspci test and it seems to recognise my card so that answers one question but brings up another, why isn't it connecting? Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks,
S.

EDIT2 -- How do I use the cube effect. What buttons do I click? Thanks :~ )

henbane

lspci seeing your card doesn't necessarily mean ubuntu can use it.

If you post what lspci has to say about your card, some decent advice re native support -v- ndiswrapper may be forthcoming.

ndiswrapper shouldn't be any major hassle to install. Just read through the "INSTALL" file after you have extracted the archive (e.g. tar -xvf ndiswrapper-1.47.tar.gz possibly being patronising here but you did state you were purely windows based before this and it took me a while to understand the lack of winzip in unixland when I first got started).

I don't know what the "cube effect" is - serves me right for using slack and shunning X

mach1982

Ok to get wireless woring in Ubuntu, can a bit fiddly for a frist timer but not that hard.Frist you need fine out what chip set your card uses.Just google for it.After that you need to do is get the driver ,if it's a ralink chip best place is here. Read the README file it explains how to install it
If it is railink chip after you install it do the fllowing.
Open up a Terminal type

iwconfig

If you see ra0 you in business

next type

sudo dhclient ra0

You'll need you password.

and you should be able to connect.


Ndiswrapper didn't work for me, but I kno it work for others, so give it a try.

tck

hehe

sudo apt-get install bcm43xx-fwcutter