<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Nils Kassube wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:200909022120.03009.kassube@gmx.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Accessys@smart.net">Accessys@smart.net</a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Young wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">easy solution, delete vista. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> No, it's not a solution as long as wireless doesn't work with Ubuntu. @Young: Do you have a key or key combination to switch on/off wireless? And if you have it, did you try to enable it again after you booted Ubuntu. The second thing to try: In the BIOS of my laptop (not a Dell machine) I have a "wireless default setting" which can be enabled or disabled. It has to be enabled for Ubuntu. And I remember I have seen another machine which had the options "disabled" and "no change" where the "no change" option worked, IIRC. If you have such a setting, play with it to find out if it makes a change. Nils </pre> </blockquote> Thanks for the idea Nils. There's a switch on the side to enable/disable the wireless, but it doesn't really change anything. I just reset the BIOS to defaults. But it doesn't help. The only thing I had changed before was the boot order so it would boot off the CD. I just booted off the CD again to see if the BIOS reset changed anything. The answer is no. What else can be done to reset everything to the state it was in before Vista initialized? Remember, it worked fine off of the CD before that. Does Ubuntu install a different driver than the one it uses for the LiveCD? Mark </body> </html>