I have an old P4/3.4Ghz tower that has been (up until this point) running Fedora Core 8. One thing I have never been able to do is to get the Linksys wireless networking card running.
Since I need to rebuild it for the kids anyway (they are all hot on learning how to really work on the Internet), I thought I’d try Ubuntu as it was recommended by a friend.
The first problem I had was the install media … after burning and trying 3 different CD’s, each one had multiple errors when I tried to install.
What’s really weird is the erors came up in different places (same disk, different reboots).
This could be the media itself (Memorex), the burner or the reader … I don’t actually know.
What DID work, however, was buring the CD ISO to a DVD instead … first time worked wonderfully, and ubunty came up quickly and without a hitch.
Getting the wireless card running is still not happening, however. ndiswrapper says hardware is present, and modprobe says that ndiswrapper is installed, but still no wlan0 to fiddle with.
I’ve been futzing with hardware most of the evening (after we returned from Six Flags), and am putting it away for now. It may just require a reboot … but given that I’m running from CD (DVD) that’s not an option. I’ll need to find a way to do some sort of “soft reset” that doesn’t dump the ramdisk.
IF I can get this card working, then I’ll switch to Ubuntu permanently and let the kids have at it …
Anyone have any clues?
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Nick, great seeing you working with U. I totally removed Mac on my MacBook and now running U with some great results. Regarding above, everything worked perfectly once I installed. My wireless actually works much better now with this OS than Mac for some reason.