Stupid Networking Mistake (On My Part)
Tony Baldwin
photodharma at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 17:37:01 UTC 2009
art wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> If the computer using wireless is a laptop I will tell you my problem.
>> It seems that there is a software package in Windows that turns on the
>> WiFi device. When you boot Ubuntu the WiFi devise is off and you can't
>> use wireless.
> Try booting into windows, and then rebooting into Ubuntu without turning
> off the laptop. See if that preserves the firmware in the device for
> Ubuntu to use it.
> Art
>
>
um...what about ifup?
Or just use wicd or wifi-radar?
I use wicd on my netbook and wifi-radar on my thinkpad, and they
bring up my wlan.
/tony
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