How to activate Wireless (Broadcom) on Amilo D1840 with Ubuntu 6.10
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Hello and welcome to Ubuntu! It is my opinion that Ubuntu is the easiest Linux for a beginner to use, so I think you've made a good choice. Getting wireless networking to work, however, is sort of a black art. The best reference I can show to you is:
http: //ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=25683
This deals with Broadcom cards with Ubuntu specifically.
Note: before you start, you need to get the latest ndiswrapper, as Ubuntu 6.10 ships with an older version that does not work with the shipped kernel. Open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.8
This will update your system and get you ready to go!
Hello and welcome to Ubuntu! It is my opinion that Ubuntu is the easiest Linux for a beginner to use, so I think you've made a good choice. Getting wireless networking to work, however, is sort of a black art. The best reference I can show to you is:
http: //ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=25683
This deals with Broadcom cards with Ubuntu specifically.
Note: before you start, you need to get the latest ndiswrapper, as Ubuntu 6.10 ships with an older version that does not work with the shipped kernel. Open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.8
This will update your system and get you ready to go!
I also just recently started testing Ubuntu. And I too have an Amilo D 1840 and I got my wireless network working without problems directly after a fresh install of Ubuntu 6.10.
From what I can remember all I did was enter System/Administration/Networking. There I could just mark a box to activate the wireless network. I could also go to properties and where I was able to enter the ESSID of my network. After that it worked flawlessly!
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How to activate Wireless (Broadcom) on Amilo D1840 with Ubuntu 6.10
