What one do you recommend to work straight away? <div>On 13/02/07, Roberto Sarrionandia <<a href="mailto:rbs.tito@yahoo.co.uk">rbs.tito@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I couldn't get mine working, I bought a new one. Andrew Gee wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I've converted my mate to linux when his windows install kept mucking > up. He's very impressed so far, especially with the installer! But he > has a problem. > > He owns a WPN111 usb wireless adapter which didn't work "out of the box" > on ubuntu. It showed up on System -> Admin -> Networking as a Wireless > adapter. But going into the properties of this wireless adapter, didn't > show the wireless settings part of the properties that is usually there. > > So the computer had no network connection. So I got him the DVD version > of ubuntu, which included ndiswrapper. ndiswrapper was installed, the > driver files were copied to the user folder and they were installed into > ubuntu with the: >       sudo ndiswrapper -i netwpn11.inf > > Then added the ndiswrapper kernel module to run. But running iwconfig > didn't show any new network adapters. Nothing like ath0 or wlan0. > > "sudo ndiswrapper -l" shows the network adapter as driver present, > hardware present. But still no new network adapter there. Only lo, eth0, > and sit0. > > So... I'm stuck :) > > Please help! > - -- > Andrew Gee > <a href="mailto:andrew@webspot.co.uk">andrew@webspot.co.uk</a> > <a href="http://www.webspot.co.uk"> http://www.webspot.co.uk</a> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFF0i4KeE9nhbkYalgRAujbAKCFSUC6jkf1KDtilyW21rZRyQELygCfXXRv > lj+LEEE3gR4Yr3DBj3lHTis= > =Pofb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ___________________________________________________________ All New Yahoo! Mail – Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. <a href="http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html">http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html</a> -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div> -- Andrew Gee <a href="mailto:andrew@webspot.co.uk"> andrew@webspot.co.uk</a> <a href="http://www.webspot.co.uk">http://www.webspot.co.uk</a>