ubuntu on laptop

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 13:27 -0500, slow'puter wrote:
> Well, I decided that I wanted to try the i386 version of Ubuntu, so I
> took the Mandrake off the laptop and installed Ubuntu.

Warty or hoary?

> I am almost at the same place with the wireless card. When I modprobe,
> the system tells me that it can't insert ndiswrapper, the module is
> incorrect. I have the .ko (for gcc 3.2.2), not the .o
> 
> Should I recompile?

There is no need to compile the module yourself, it is shipped in the
linux-restricted-modules package. For warty this module works (I am
using it), certain versions of hoary (I believe in January) had a
problem, but that problem has been solved.
-- 
Dennis K.
  And that's the way the cookie crumbles!