Wireless USB Adaptor

Matthew Rossi matthew.penguincentral at gmail.com
Sat Jul 5 08:28:59 BST 2008


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If I remember correctly i have a netgear WG111v2 on my old computer
that the family uses (my xp computer that formerly ran ubuntu).
I tried getting the adapter working in feisty and gutsy to no
avail.  How did you get your going Matt?


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On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Matthew Vermeulen <mattvermeulen at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Simon Ives <simon at simonives.info> wrote:
>
>> Recently the Broadcom chip-set based wireless card in my notebook
>> decided to die.  One of the circuits actually fried somehow!  Anyhow,
>> has anyone had any success with Wireless USB adaptors under Ubuntu?  At
>> home my wireless router is a D-Link DSL-G604T capable of both 802.11b
>> and 802.11g.  I'm not sure of what wireless technology is in use at Uni
>> (Uni of QLD and ANU) though.  I'd need an adaptor capable of connecting
>> to both networks.  I'm currently using LAN at home but I'll need some
>> way of accessing the wireless at Uni after the holidays.
>>
>> If this helps at all, I have a netgear wg111 (
> http://www.netgear.com/Products/Adapters/GWirelessAdapters/WG111.aspx) usb
> wireless adaptor which works out of the box on my desktop (plug it in and 20
> seconds later it's all set up). However, there may be some other versions of
> this (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/NetgearWG111) so
> that may be something to consider.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
>
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