OT: Windows is too expensive

parabolize · #1 March 9th, 2007, 06:41 AM

Wireless is a pain in the butt with any OS besides windows. Don't jump on ndiswrapper right away; I have seen wireless cards not show up because /etc/network/interfaces has a typo or doesn't have wep set or the module hasn't been added to the repositories. With that said whats the hardware? This will display all your "pci" devices (actually a lot more but...):
Code:

lspci -v | less

If its usb:
Code:

lsusb -v | less

It would help if you would post your /etc/network/interfaces and what you have done.

geoschmo · #2 March 9th, 2007, 10:16 AM

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parabolize said:
With that said whats the hardware?

It's a Trendnet TEW424UB v2.0 which according to everything I've read is not supported natively by Ubuntu. That seems to be confirmed by the fact that when I plug it in it doesn't "just work". According to the info I could find it uses a driver sis163u.inf driver. I loaded that driver using the GUI driver interface thingy and it seems to work there, but it doesn't appear to find the hardware. I did notive when I do the command "ndiswrapper -l" it shows the driver as loaded but out to the right says "invalid driver!" so maybe I've got the wrong one somehow.

I'll play with it some more tonight and try your commands para.

On the bright side I have managed to load the flash and adobe plugins for firefox so at least browsing seems to work pretty well at this point. Using an ethernet cable was totally painless. Didn't have to do anything at all to get it to work except plug the cable into the NIC port. I'd just like to move off the floor next to my router and on to the desk, so I'd like to get that wireless working.

Anybody have any experience getting VNC to work? I want to load VNC server on the Ubuntu pc and use my windows laptop with the vnc client to control it. That should work, right? Or do I have to have the same OS on both machines to use VNC?

Geoschmo

Fyron · #3 March 9th, 2007, 02:09 PM

You can use VNC across OSes.

parabolize · #4 March 9th, 2007, 05:45 PM

Nevermind

geoschmo · #5 March 9th, 2007, 06:33 PM

How do I tell what version of ndiswrapper I have? This doc you linked to was one I found, but it's for Ubuntu 5.10 and I have 6.10. I assumed that page was out of date and that probably the ndiswrapper I had was actually the latest one.

Geoschmo

parabolize · #6 March 9th, 2007, 06:57 PM

5.10, 6.10 its close! You should have 1.18 which is a bit newer. You can check in synaptic with a search for ndiswrapper. Sorry about that.

geoschmo · #7 March 9th, 2007, 07:30 PM

Para, why did you edit out your post? I found the link, but you had some other stuff there. The ndiswrapper I have is 1.18, but according to this link the version I want is 1.5. Unless that's a misprint and they meant 1.05 or something, that's sounds newer than what I have.

Geoschmo