[ubuntu-in] wireless in Hardy

[Mir Nazim]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Vishal Rao <vishalrao at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Mir Nazim <mirnazim at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hi guys.
>  >
>  >  After endless battles to setup broadcom card I have decided to give
>  >  PCMCIA wifi cards.
>  >
>  >  <POSSIBLY OFF TOPIC>
>  >
>  >  Can anyone suggest me what card should I buy. I mean your views of
>  >  best possible cost vs performance.
>  >
>  >
>  >  </POSSIBLY OFF TOPIC>
>
>  I also almost had an endless battle :-)
>
>  I realised the "ssb" module was not getting unloaded even after
>  blacklisting. Only the b43 would go. Plus, the ethernet eth0
>  interface would prevent wlan0 from working if it was up So in my
>  rc.local (after setting up ndiswrapper) I added the following lines:
>
>  rmmod ssb
>  rmmod ndiswrapper
>  modprobe ndiswrapper
>  ifdown eth0
>  ifdown wlan0
>  ifup wlan0
>
>  There is probably a better way to get it working (Im almost a noob)
>  but now wireless works for me :-)
>  Of course I followed the ndiswrapper steps to get wlan0 up the first
>  time then provided settings like
>  wlan ID and WPA2 password etc in NetworkManager
>  (System->Administration->Network)...

I agree to most of  what  you said but once you will upgrade the
distro. You have to the dance again to get things working.

PS: I also managed to get things working. We can manage manage to get
things working, does not necessarily translate  to "we want to do it
this way". I am a web application developer and it is there where I
want to spend my time rather than spending hours and days trying to
get a brain dead piece of hardware working. I think PCMCIA card will
be worth the cost(as it saves lots of head aches).

That's why I asked community for the help in buying the best possible card


>
>  HTH
>
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