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Originally Posted by jomen (Post 3732010)

ps:
you talk about a 100 m cable
If you are that far away from the wireless AP there could be problems with reception.
Also, from what I gathered, the device will only do the slower b-mode (802.11b) and will probably not support WPA encryption.
...only to prevent surprises...

Its a long way to walk but the bedroom is actually directly above the router. 802.11b gives me 22Mb which is a lot faster than my ADSL connection so still no problems. I was using the PC with XP so I know how well it performs, unfortunately XP hangs regularly so I though I would give Linux a go before binning the old girl. Strange with all my prodding and tweaking it has never crashed once under Linux.

o.k. then
the more important part (in terms of getting closer to getting it to work) is still unanswered:

Code:

uname -r

which will tell the kernel-version you run
And also:
Which Ubuntu is it? The newest (karmic) I hope.
or jaunty...or which?

Based on that info you (or we) can find and download the needed packages from here:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/
and install them via apt-get on commandline

Hi,

'100m' is not the best length for wireless but can be doable. A lot depends on construction techniques and composition of the walls.

:hattip:

I now do have the newest Ubuntu installed in virtualbox - and have to bring to attention, that the module as well as the needed firmware for that card is already present - with no online-connection so far. Just the plain CD install.

Code:

lsmod | grep acx

should tell you that the module is loaded
if it is not, then

Code:

modprobe acx

will do that
- all commands with "sudo" in front when needed -
after you plug in the adapter, you should see something in the system logs.
To check, use one of these commands:

Code:

dmesg

cat /var/log/syslog

The documentation is old and it mentioned that network-manager needs to be disabled.
No relatively recent info on that that I could find.
So I suppose it is "just working"(TM) now.

What do you get from all these commands?
What happens if you right-click the network-manager icon?

And please tell what version of Ubuntu you are on.

From what I can see, it should just work - given that the network settings are correct (you need to fill them in - it will not ask you automatically as in windows).

Thanks for all the advice but unfortunately I am away from home this week, half term, and will get back on Sunday so will have a look then.

Many thanks to all and from memory I have version 9.04.

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...and from memory I have version 9.04.

Then it is exactly the same I have referred to in the previous post, which means:
everything you need is already there - it should just work.