wireless card not working

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:14:01PM -0800, Don W. Jenkins wrote:

> 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.  

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