Hey all. I consider myself to be a pretty competent Linux user, but have had no end of trouble in trying to set up any of my favorite distributions on my new Presario. Ubuntu and other Debian-based distributions don't seem to recognize the wireless card through wext OR ndiswrapper, and Slackware-based (my preference) doesn't start X. To make things all the more complicated, I'm using a AMD x64 dual core processor.

Any suggestions on distributions to try, or methods you all used to get yours working? Downloading Debian 5 now, hoping that the detection has improved somewhat..

You didn't say what wireless card you had! I am using a Presario V5201US which has a Broadcom bcm4318 card. I am runing the UE 2.0 version of Ubuntu 8.10, which is a jazzed up version. It uses the b43xx driver and the Wifi Radar daemon and comes up every time, once it is set up. Just a thought. I am using the 32 bit version, however, there is a 64 bit version that I am using on my desktop, but not using wireless there. Hey, its something for you to try if you haven't gotten it figured out yet. later.............El_Viejo

Btw, I also have Mandriva 2008.1 on the same Compaq, which uses the Windows (ugh) drive and Ndiswrapper. I have to install the Mandriva version FIRST, then add the Ubuntu. 73's

Hello ...

Could you post info like dmesg, lspci, lsmod and related ?? We need to see what's happening.