wireless card not working

[Don W. Jenkins]

I'm a new poster and new to Ubuntu, but I am impressed with what I have
seen and by their philosophy. I am trying to migrate from SuSE 9.1 Pro
because, while it handles my wireless card flawlessly, it cannot seem
to deal with my display at some level and keeps freezing everything up.
 So I'm trying to find the really good match of display that doesn't
freeze, wireless card that works, and Debian (don't really like those
RPM's.)  What I have is a Proxim Orinoco PCI a,b,g card, and I find
that Ubuntu is loading all the same modules, including the non-free
firmware ones that SuSE did, and when I run the device driver and the
network config tool, it seems to see the card, but it doesn't seem to
be able to enable the card so that it is connected. It is shown as ath0
because it is an Atheros chip, ratherthan eth0.  The card works fine in
Win 2000 and SuSE, so no problem with the hardware.  And Ubuntu seems
to have all the parts to connect, but I'm not sure what the handshake
is.  Any insight would help this new user.  

Thanks,
Don J.

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Don W. Jenkins
Rancho San Diego      |     A state of not minding too much |   
"People will let you do whatever you will"
                                      --Max Farce


		
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