Learn from suse install to improve my Ubuntu install?

[Senectus .]

On 10/08/06, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at numericable.fr> wrote:
> "Senectus ." <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I let novell install SLED 10 on my test laptop the other night.. it
> > all went very well and it's the first distro I've ever tried (and I'd
> > tried dozens) to successfully detect and setup _all_ hardware on my
> > Thinkpad A31p on it's own, including the bluetooth and the wireless
> > card.
> >
> > I'm enjoying the very clean and slick setup of SLED 10 but am starting
> > to pine for my old Ubuntu again.
> >
> > I'd _love_ to have wireless working the same in ubuntu but I know from
> > experience that it's a difficult thing to get working (in fact I've
> > never had wireless working under ubuntu).
> >
> > What do I need to do while I still have my perfectly working SLED 10
> > setup to find out how they managed to get it working when I can't
> > under ubuntu?
> > Can I learn anything from this that will improve my Ubuntu setup?
>
> Just a shot in the dark, but you probably paid for Suse ED, hence Suse could legally include some proprietary driver for your Wifi H/W (by giving part of the money you paid, to the relevant firm), which Ubuntu, being free, can legaly not do ?

That's entirely possible..
I just got a flash of insight and dumped some lspci and lsmod files so
I can see what It's using..
Anyone know if these are proprietary?
from lspci
02:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan
chipset (rev 01)

from lsmod
prism2_pci             61696  0
p80211                 30608  1 prism2_pci



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