OK, I have Ubuntu version 6.06 on my desky in dual boot. Recently upgraded from 5.10, and everything is all purdy and swish...but I have a problem... I have a belkin F5D7050, and it's not happening...the main reason for the upgrade was to fix driver problems, which sorted out my gigabit ethernet, and sound drivers, but no wifi... Basically, if anyone has a n00b friendly, step by step teaching on how to do this, it would be very much appreciated, and i will bake an e-cookie and send it
Goolge gives a lot of advice; I'd search here and/or here so Google solves this for you (wireless usally is a case of ndiswrapper)
Tried a google search the other day, and got sweet FA, well...nothing that is useful...but i'll try those other links, thanks mate EDIT : Glider, I could hug you right now *bakes e- cookie* *gives e-cookie*
I know how much a pain in the behind wireless can be on Linux... And it seems that you are one of the lucky ones... So, 3 chipsets for the same model (typical...) Don't fear tough... The Ndiswrapper Wiki howto will get it installed... Just replace the XP driver with your XP driver... (mostly boils down to replacing "sudo ndiswrapper -i mrv8ka51.inf" the bold stuff with your driver.inf) Edit: Ok, you beat me to it... all that wiki'ing for nothing... But that's ok... And thanks for the cookie Make it a chocolate one next time
linux and wireless was a problem, but actually, it is a false myth. Linux detect more wireless automaticly (or is supose to) than windows xp and vista. The best distro for wireless is actually freespire, but almost all distro now come with a lot of wireless driver and few of them start having madwifi too. The only problem is when nothing work automaticly, it is harder to configure it than in win$ the linux driver: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
