[ubuntu-uk] Dell Optiplex 740

[Barry Drake]

On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 10:13 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> If your spare wireless PCI card doesn't work, have a look at the list of
> supported cards [1] before buying anything. 

The whole process went far quicker and easier than I'd expected.  After
playing around for an hour or so trying to get the PCI card working with
ndiswrapper, I decided to pop to our local Maplin and get a PCI card for
£15 (the cheapest they do).  It 'just worked' ....  I'd probably have
got the other card to work eventually - it was found, and the Windows
drivers seemed to install just fine under ndiswrapper ...  but I gave up
after a lot of time failing to get it to configure .... and for £15, I
wasn't prepared to spend hours and hours playing with it.

For your interest, the card is a Maplin A30HA 'White Box' card, and
Lucid recognised it without any configuring from me.

Thanks again for your help.

Barry Drake
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