Brendan, your information is the best feedback ever! I'm happy, no I'm ecstatic, to report that I'm writing this email and sending via my wireless card! <br>I've been trying to get this card going off and on for about a year, with it always plaguing the back of my mind. It was just one of those things I was determined to figure out.
<br>I don't want to even imagine how many hours I've spent researching and looking for a solution on the net. <br>Of course there were many answers, some of them drawn out and elaborate, but nothing worked. Now your response has made it so easy.
<br>I started out trying to get it going on 5.10, then 6.06, all to no avail. Then I thought I'd find a solution in 6.10. Now I have instructions for both!<br>Anyway, I owe you a pitcher or two. If you're ever in the Sudbury area, definitely let me know.
<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><div style="margin-left: 80px;">Hi, Tee Jay.<br><br>Which version of Ubuntu are you using? Many of the D-link adapters actually
<br>work in Ubuntu without the need for ndiswrapper. Ndiswrapper should be a<br>last resort only for cards known not to work in linux. Unfortunately much of<br>the documentation seems to points users towards it unnecessarily.
<br><br>If it is one of the Dlink cards based on the Atheros chip (my AirPlus is) it<br>should work out of the box in Dapper, while in Edgy you need to install the<br>restricted modules for your kernel version.<br><br>I would start with the assumption that it works (since it does on mine). So
<br>the first thing you should do is remove the ndiswrapper stuff completely.<br><br>If you're on Edgy, search synaptic for restricted-modules, install the<br>package for your architecture (probably 'generic' or 'i386'), reboot, and
<br>then it should be detected.<br><br>If you're on Dapper I suggest you reboot after removing ndiswrapper.<br><br>Once you've rebooted, check System>Administration>Networki</div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-left: 80px;">
ng, and see if the<br>wireless card is listed. If there is an entry for wireless networking there,<br>then your card has been detected.<br><br>If the card is still not being detected, then I would first check that the<br>
pcmcia card bus and other laptop doodads are working properly - search the<br>forums and the internet for linux on your particular computer.<br><br>You may want to try booting the kernal with options such as noapic or<br>
acpi=off, to see if that works, the former was necessary on one of my<br>laptops for it to recognise the soundcard, wifi and pcmcia bus on hoary.<br><br>Once it's detected:<br>1. Turn off any security on your wireless network
<br>2. Install network-manager and network-manager-gnome (assuming you're on<br>Ubuntu)<br>3. Restart Gnome. You should see a network icon in the top righthand. Click<br>it. Does it give you wireless network options? If so, sign onto your
<br>network.<br>4. Once you have it working, then you can enable the security, and network<br>manager will disconnect you and ask you for the WEP passphrase/whatever. If<br>you are using WPA security, then you have to install some other packages, so
<br>search for that in the forums.<br><br>Hope that helps.<br><br>Brendan</div></blockquote>