[ubuntu-in] wireless in Hardy

[Mir Nazim]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Mir Nazim <mirnazim at gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI
>
>  I need to use it in my HP Compaq 6515b Laptop(1.6 amd Turion64 X2, 1.5 GB ram ).
>
>

Hi,

Just got D-Link DWL-G630 AirPlus  G PCI Express Card. Plugged in and
was detected immediately. Best part is no changes required the basic
Hardy system. Works superbly with NetworkManager.

Looks great so far.

Looks like lspci shows this as:

02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b6)

Not sure though.



>
>  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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