Wireless PCI cards and archives

E.L. & J.H. Maroon storypage at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 15 17:29:23 UTC 2004


I have installed Ubuntu on the master drive, Windows
98 on the secondary. The models are:

D-Link: DWL-G510
Belkin: 802.11B is all it says. there is a number
F5D6001

Jim Maroon


--- Mike Smith <mikeosmith at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 1. I installed Ubuntu on my daughter's computer,
> which
> > has two hard drives. I unplugged the second drive
> > during install because I was afraid I would wipe
> out
> > her data. I then plugged it back in and rebooted.
> My
> > problem is that I don't see the second drive or
> its
> > data under Disks or Filesystem. When I check the
> > Device Manager, I do see it. What is the problem
> here?
> > If it helps, it was formatted for Windows 98.
> 
> I'm assuming you booted into Windows and are looking
> for the drive you
> install Ubuntu on. Windows will not ba able to see
> it, because it
> can't recognize the filesystems
> (ext3/reiserfs/xfs,/etc).
> 
> > 2. The system did not recognize her wireless
> network
> > card at all, a Belkin 802.11g. I thought it might
> be
> > unsupported, so I bought a new card today, a
> D-Link
> > 802.11g. Still no luck. I even tried to reinstall
> > Ubuntu and unplugged the built in ethernet port,
> but
> > it couldn't find it on install and insisted that I
> > plug into the port. Any ideas for how I can get
> this
> > thing to recognize either one or both of these
> cards?
> > Are there drivers out there for this sort of
> thing? If
> > so, how do I install them?
> > 
> What  models are they? Have a look at:
> http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz
> 


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