I managed to sidestep the problem i had in my previous thread by following a lead in one of the replies' mentions of graphics card problem, disabling my ATI card in favor of the onboard, and so was able to install ubuntu 7.04. Now i have a new problem.
I'm still posting from my cell phone as I have been unable to locate linux drivers for either wireless adapter I have: a PCI Linksys wmp54g and a USB Netgear WG111T. In lieu of this, I tried installing ndiswrapper and using the driver from the linksys cd...
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 Mar 3 2008, 7:36 pm
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Well, I managed to solve the problem well enough on my own, and I'm not sure what I did exactly, but here's all that I recall:
ndiswrapper -i WMP54GS.inf ndiswrapper -m ndiswrapper -ma modprobe ndiswrapper (restart system) Of course, all of the commands were executed with the sudo directive. I'll leave this here for archival purposes, in the off-chance that someone else will come here in a similar time of need. Hiead | |
Anyhow, installing ndiswrapper was a blast since i had to use my phone to get the packages. So i did the whole:
ndiswrapper -i WMP54GS.inf
ndiswrapper -m
modprobe ndiswrapper
But I don't see the expected wlan0 device. I'm sure modprobe outputs somewhere but can't find it.
I've looked at other sites, but frankly they're phone-unfriendly, and I know byond has a decent linux showing. If anyone can correct my above method, find suitable linux drivers, or maybe even point me to the .deb packages (I'll be downloading from my phone since the pc is net-less and apt-get is useless) for something like WINE (worth a shot, maybe could install the Windows drivers from the cd), it would be great indeed.
Hiead