[ubuntu-uk] wifi mini-survey

[Matthew Daubney]

Mac wrote:
> Friends >>> Following the surprisingly few responses to some recent 
> questions about wifi, I'm beginning to wonder how many of us are 
> actually using Ubuntu wirelessly on laptops.
>
> So here's a quick poll:
>
> Do you use Ubuntu on a laptop + wifi?
>
> And, if you do, do you use
>
> no encryption / WEP / WPA / WPA2
>
> with ESSID broadcast / hidden?
>
>
> Mac
>   
I do use wifi, on my Dell Inspiron 6400, it's got an intel wifi chip in it:

0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG 
Network Connection (rev 02)

This is attached to a WEP network ('cause the Wii didn't support wpa at 
the time) with the SSID broadcast.

My fiancees laptop also has wifi in it, which she uses, which has a 
different wifi card in it (broadcom I think?) which I got working with 
ndiswrapper. Hopefully that will go with her Gutsy upgrade this weekend :-)

Don't know what her network uses...... I shall have a look tomorrow 
evening though.

-Matt Daubney