Vista kills Ubuntu wireless

[Karl F. Larsen]

Young wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> Colin Law wrote:
>>  
>>> 2009/9/2 Accessys at smart.net <accessys at smart.net>:
>>>    
>>>> On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Young wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>         
>>>> easy solution, delete vista.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> Bob, I don't think you read the original post quite carefully enough.
>>> The problem is, I think, that having run Vista once ubuntu will no
>>> longer access the wireless at all.  Deleting Vista will not help with
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>>     
>>     What is happening here is Vista has a devise added to it, that 
>> starts the wireless devise when you start Vista. And it turns it off 
>> when you turn off Vista.
>>
>>     You fix this by taking out the battery. Then start on the wall 
>> charger and bring up Vista. When it is up and working with wireless, 
>> unplug the laptop. Now put the battery back in and never use Vista again!
>>
>>     I had to do this with my laptop.
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>
>>   
> Karl, I'm not sure what you mean, but I guess I should have said that I 
> want this laptop to be a dual boot machine, even though Ubuntu will be 
> the default OS.
> 
> 
> 
	Sorry, you can't have that unless you can get the wireless control 
software for Ubuntu. I do not think you can.

	Did you try what I said and did it work for you?

73 Karl


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