Re: cheap ubuntu laptop with wireless that works right "out of the box".
- From: Default User <xyzzyx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:29:58 -0600
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 10:20 -0800, NoOp wrote:
On 01/30/2008 08:02 PM, Default User wrote:
Okay ... so it looks like the answer is no. Well, thanks to all who
took the time to reply and give advice.
So the laptop goes back. BTW, just for laughs, I tried once more to get
a Netgear MA111 usb wireless adapter to work on a Ubuntu 7.10 desktop
computer. No luck with either ndiswrapper or the prism driver, although
the ethernet connection works fine, as always.
Now I am reminded of why almost every one still bends over for
Microsoft. At least their lives are not defined by the limits of how
far their ethernet cable will stretch.
Well now I'm really confused. The spec that you pointed to shows:
• Integrated Wi-Fi® compliant wireless:10
o Realtek® 802.11b/g wireless-LAN
I pointed you to Realtek's website where the appear to have linux
drivers for nearly everything they produce. Here's the page for the
RTL818 wireless chipset:
<http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=1&Level=6&Conn=5&ProdID=36&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true>
On that page you will find linux drivers for the RTL818 chipset. There
are drivers for all but the RTL8187B - which seems to be the one
indicated in the Utah thread. However, you still can use ndiswrapper and
the windows driver for the RTL818B on that page. It may take some
tweaking, but you should be able to get it to work. See:
http://briancantin.blogspot.com/2007/11/hacking-rtl8187b-on-linux.html
Didn't mean to confuse you. I did not try the Netgear MA111 usb
wireless adapter on the new laptop. That remains unopened, for probable
return. It was tried (again) and failed (again) on an old desktop
computer I no longer use (fine in its time, but too old and slow now
except for emergency use, like now, when my "newer" (2004) laptop died
suddenly). The adapter never worked with Ubuntu on the 2004 laptop, but
did work fine with it running OpenBSD. (No, I'm not trolling, no flames
please).
The Netgear WG511T pcmcia card mentioned worked fine with Ubuntu on the
2004 laptop, but the new laptop does not have a pcmcia slot, just
something new, an "express card" slot. (Can you say "planned
obsolescence"?) It seems that many (most? all?) new laptops don't have
pcmcia slots anymore. So I can't use that anymore, except on some old,
used computer that probably wouldn't be usable with Ubuntu 7.10 (and
8.04 and beyond!) anyway. :-(
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