Fresh Hardy install, wireless PC card not found, "Hardware Info" menu item missing

[Andrew Mathenge]

Hi Bob,

For the graphics, that seems to be a pretty common thing among a lot of
people. I
didn't have that problem on my Dell.

One solution that I read had to do with enabling a menu item.

System -> Preferences -> Main Menu

Then under "Other", make sure that "Screens and Graphics" is checked.

Now you'll have an "Other" menu in the Applications menu.

Applications -> Other -> Screens and Graphics.

Select your video card and the resolution.

Andrew.

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

> Hi all:  Did a clean install of Hardy on an IBM Thinkpad 770X (circa
> 1999: Pentium II 300 MHz, 320 MByte RAM, 8 GByte HD).
>
> The DLink DWL-610 PCMIA wireless network card isn't discovered, so no
> network is available (it was fine under Gutsy).
>
> The Help file says to go to "System > Preferences > Hardware
> Information", but that menu entry doesn't exist!  I've been to "System
> > Preferences > Main Menu" to see if it was just unchecked, but it's
> not there either!
>
> I ran "System > Administration > Hardware Testing" and it sees the
> hardware as a "DLink DWL-510 2.4 GHz Wireless Adapter".
>
> I followed the Help File instructions and typed "sudo lshw -C network",
> which lists:
>
>  *-network UNCLAIMED
>      description: Ethernet controller
>      product: DWL-510 2.4 GHz Wireless Adapter
>      vendor: D-Link Systems Inc.
>
>
> What to do?
>
> (and I have the 800x640 max resolution problem too; this is a 1024x768
> screen.  Jay Stapleton's suggestion of "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh
> xserver-xorg" didn't help)
>
> --Bob.
>
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