Re: Ubuntu on HP-Compaq NX6110

From: Marek Williams (abc_at_example.com)
Date: 06/15/05

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    On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:04:36 +0200, Marius Sturm
    <msturm@fbe.hs-bremen.de> dijo:

    >Yeah the Laptop runs very good with Ubuntu, all hardware is detected at
    >installing time so you don't have to configure much by your own.
    >The only thing you have to do is updating the Synaptics Touchpad driver
    >because the version ships with Ubuntu is much to sensitive.
    >For now, only the WinModem does not work but I don't really need it and I
    >don't like the binary crap driver, so it is ok for me without a modem.
    >Good combination NX-6110 running Ubuntu.

    Did your wireless work right after installation, or did you have to
    set it up manually? Either way, what chip is it?

    I have a Compaq R3240 with the Broadcom 4306 wireless. I installed
    Ubuntu 5.04 64-bit and it is great. All except for the wireless, which
    it did not autoconfigure.

    I have found a number of websites which explain how to use ndiswrapper
    to get the wireless working, but I have been using Linux for only a
    couple of weeks and I find the instructions impossible to follow. For
    example --

    http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HowtoUseNdiswrapperOnAmd64Ubuntu

    First I tried to use the package the guy listed in the wiki. But I
    have no idea how to install a package, unless it is already included
    in synpatic. I tried to learn how, but after hours of googling and
    puzzling gave up.

    Then I tried to follow his other instructions, but again I failed. For
    example, he says "download the ndiswrapper source from
    ndiswrapper.sf.net. Untar it and go into the ndiswrapper directory and
    from there go to the debian directory. Open all of the control.*
    files." Well, I managed to download the ndiswrapper, but it took me an
    hour of study before I figured out how to untar it. And that gave me
    two files, both .deb files. But I have no idea where the debian
    directory is. I looked everwhere from / forward and couldn't find it.
    At that point I gave up.

    It seems all the instructions are written by people who know what
    they're doing for people who know what they're doing. I've learned a
    great deal about Linux so far, but at the rate I'm going I may have my
    wireless working sometime next year. :(

    But Ubuntu does rock. :)

    So I'm interested in success stories about wireless on Broadcom chips,
    with *detailed* instructions that assume the reader barely knows how
    to turn the computer on. :) 

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