[ubuntu-in] My Laptop Wireless is not getting detected

[Parthan SR]

Ramnarayan.K wrote:
> Hi Shakthi Kannan
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Run the following:
>>
>>  wget http://shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/scripts/network-debug.sh
>>  sh network-debug.sh > output.txt
>>
>> and paste output.txt to us.
>>     
>
> Please don't mind my paranoia and rudeness but
> assuming that the person is a newbie is it right to ask him to run a
> script which from the wget link seems to be from a non official site
>
> would it not be better to also explain what the script does and if it
> is a series of commands that are contained within the script so that
> the new
> 1. also know and understands whats happening and
> 2. be in the habit of avoiding readymade scripts as a solution
>
>   
Please open the script in a text editor and have a look at that. If you 
have any doubt on any of the commands, hit `man <command>` or google for 
the same, or worst case ask the one who told you about the script. As 
far as I know about the script, it contains a series of network related 
commands and it just prints them in a readable manner one after other.

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Parthan "technofreak"
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