[ubuntu-in] wireless in Hardy
Mir Nazim
mirnazim at gmail.com
Fri May 2 12:18:10 BST 2008
FYI
I need to use it in my HP Compaq 6515b Laptop(1.6 amd Turion64 X2, 1.5 GB ram ).
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Mir Nazim <mirnazim at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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> >
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