Vista kills Ubuntu wireless

[Young]

Colin Law wrote:
> 2009/9/2 Young <tuxman at knology.net>:
>   
>> I just got my first laptop (Dell Studio 1737), and wanted to do it up right
>> with Ubuntu. Before I even let Vista run, I forced it to boot from the
>> Ubuntu 9.04 i386 live CD and it worked fine, including the wireless. So I,
>> of course, think I'm home free.
>>
>> I used GParted to repartition the hard drive for Vista, /, swap, /home, and
>> a second NTFS partition for shared files.
>>
>> Next, I let Vista boot, and it didn't seem to be happy with the repartition,
>> but it eventually finished the initialization, and after multiple reboots it
>> seems to run fine, including the wireless.
>>
>> Then, I booted from the Ubuntu live CD again and installed Ubuntu. When I
>> finally boot into Ubuntu off the hard drive, the wireless will not work.
>> I then boot from the live CD, and the wireless will not work.
>>
>> I boot back into Vista and the wireless works fine.
>> Multiple iterations, same results.
>>
>> Where do I start?
>> Will 64 bit fix this? How about using the Alternate Install CD?
>>
>> I hope you guys can help. I haven't been able to find anything via Google.
>>     
>
> On a desktop pc I would try disconnecting the power lead in case some
> hardware state is being remembered over a re-boot and then try ubuntu
> again (after plugging in again of course before some wit replies), not
> sure how to do that on a laptop.  Remove the battery?
>
> Colin
>
>   
I didn't think of that.
I just took the battery out, waited 30 seconds, reinstalled battery. 
Booted into Ubuntu.
The wireless is still dead.

Thanks for trying.


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