well... i just tried kubuntu, and i have to say that i am impressed... it picked up most of my hardware with no problem (video, sound, etc) and it was faster than WinXP, even running it from the CD... however, before i take the final step and install it, i need some help with the one thng it didn't pick up: my wireless card

I have an airlink101 AWLC3026 802.11g card, and when i booted into kubuntu, not even the power light on the card turns on...

any ideas on how to make it work? ideally i would like to try and make it work before installing it, so i can have internet access right away to solve any lingering problems...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ax88178
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...-card-fc3.html
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB...631861201de4db
Maybe some of that info can help you out.

I made a small partition for kubuntu, and installed it, so for now i am on dual-boot...

about the wireless card: after some reading, i realized that i need to load the driver with ndiswrapper... the only problem is that since i don't have internet access without my wireless card, , i can't get the ndiswrapper-utils package, so i can't get the drivers to work...

can anyone tell me where to get that package?

EDIT: nevermind, i just found it... i will report back, hopefully from linux...

Success!

i got most stuff to work, so now i am cacking up my stuff to get rid of windows once and for all...

the only problem i still have is i can't boot with my wireless NIC inserted, but if i put it in after boot up, it works great...

(view this thread for that problem...)