Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo L1300 Laptop

[Jean Gruneberg]

Hi all

Quick question - anyone got Ubuntu on one of these?  Have 
managed to get everything (screen / smb / printing to 
windows network) working with thanks to all on the list for 
pointers etc.

Only issue I have is with the gemtek WL-850F mini-PCI 
adaptor.  It is known to work under slackware 
http://ce-serv.et.tudelft.nl/~pazaid/personal/linux/wifi.html

However all combos of ndiswrapper etc have only served to 
completely wonk my Ubuntu boot....

1st issue - get a 'can't update isl3886 firmware' during 
boot (I connect to the net thru a windows proxy server). How 
do i update firmware manually?

2nd issue - got the card as far as being WLAN0 once, it 
scanned and found my access point but would not connect, 
presumed it did not have a dhcp lease, reboot and everything 
was gone again!  However it was around 2 am and can't 
recreate the sequence to get back there again.


So anyone got this card going under ubuntu yet?  Wireless is 
the last thing keeping windows on the laptop - help want to 
get rid of it (windows!).


Jean