<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"><BR><BR> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: D. R. Evans <doc.evans@gmail.com><BR>To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com><BR>Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:40:10 PM<BR>Subject: Re: ndiswrapper questions<BR><BR>David McGlone said the following at 03/27/2008 07:23 PM :<BR><BR>> 6. I executed:<BR>> ndiswrapper -a 0bda:8197 net8187b.<BR>> <BR>> what does ndiswrapper -l report?<BR>> <BR>> if it says driver: <blah blah> hardware present or something very similar, you should be good to go.<BR><BR>yes, it reports that.<BR><BR>> <BR>> now you need to do:<BR>> <BR>> sudo depmod -a<BR>> sudo modprobe ndiswrapper (at this point your light for your wireless should come on If you haven't already got to this point)<BR>> <BR>> <BR><BR>I did those. Yes, the light is on.<BR><BR>I can do an "ifconfig -a" and I now see an entry labelled "wlan0", but I<BR>don't know what to do to actually use it.<BR><BR><BR>> 8. So now what? How do I actually access and/or configure the wifi network?<BR>> <BR>> you should be able to go into the control pannel and configure your wireless card and connection.<BR>> <BR><BR>Can you give me some details, please? I'm probably being incredibly dense,<BR>but it's simply not at all obvious to me where I should be looking, nor<BR>what I should do when I find it.</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Ok have you tried using the "network" icon in the control center? Go in there and you should see your wlan0</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">card along with your eth0 card. Click on the wlan0 card and edit it, you will need to add your SSID and if you are</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">using security then add your security information. Don't forget to add your gateway on the next tab and change the dropdown to wlan0</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">If this don't help, tomorrow when I get home, I will get on my linux box and describe everything in better detail.</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Right now I don't have my linux box available to give you better detail, but I'm trying to help you to the best of my</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">memory. By the way, I could never connect using the password in text, I always had to use the hex key.</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">I hope this helps for the time being, if you don't figure it out by tomorrow morning, I will try and walk you</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">through it step by step. <BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>