OT: Windows is too expensive

[geoschmo]

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