Re: [orca-list] Connecting to a wireless network with Orca and Ubuntu?]

[Jeffrey Shockley <jawswizard ec rr com>]

Hi list,
Just forwarding this to the whole list because Cody sent this to me by 
mistake.

Jeffrey

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [orca-list] Connecting to a wireless network with Orca and 
Ubuntu?
Date:   Sat, 17 May 2008 14:44:54 -0700
From:   Cody Hurst <churst35 verizon net>
To:     Jeffrey Shockley <jawswizard ec rr com>
References: 	<000001c8b830$d73d5100$0400a8c0 Jamespc> 
<482EFFCA 5070805 ec rr com>



Hello,

  Yes, those steps are correct, however, you need to install
ndiswrapper and install your drivers once you have extracted them by
doing

ndiswrapper -i driver.inf

note that you will need to install ndiswrapper from apt or compile it
from source. Then, you must continue by following my good man Jeff's
steps. At this point you should be up and running with wireless. Also,
I would suggest that you get wifiradar to have a gui wireless scanned
list.

I just want to let you know that after I had tried to enable my
wireless connections through the system/administration/networking and
it completely hung the laptop, but this was on an Averatech
33700series. Although some have gotten it to work. Good luck though.

Cody

On May 17, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote:

>  Hi,
>  First, you'll want to check whether your wireless card is supported.
>  You can easily do this by going to Applications
>  menu/System/Administration/Network. Tab to the connections table,
>  and if
>  you see Wireless connection, then if it is disabled, check the box and
>  click the properties button (This is how you connect to wireless
>  netwroks, BTW.)
>  If your wireless card is not supported, then you'll have to go find
>  Windows driversdrivers for it and extract the Cab file,and some more
>  things, but I forgot them.
>  HTH,
>  Jeffrey Shockley
>
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>
>  James Scholes wrote:
> >  Hi all, I have just installed Ubuntu and up and running beautifully,
> >  however I can't find the option to connect to the internet using my
> >  wireless network. Where do I find this?
> >  James Scholes
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Networking Concepts
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Croatan High School
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The URL is
http://jeffreyshockley.livejournal.com
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The URL is
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