Absolutely Zero access to the Internet
I'm currently dual booting Windows XP and Ubuntu (Hardy Heron).
I can only access the internet through the wireless card (Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card). I have yet to succeed at connecting to a wireless internet connection because of my inability to connect to the internet some other way. I've read several guides, and all have require a previous connection (for lines of code with "wget", often to get drivers or ndiswrapper). So, I need to know, without another access to the internet, am I doomed to an Internet-less Linux existence? If not, please, any advice would be extremely appreciated. |
I'm guessing you're saying you can get to the internet from the Windows boot?
If so just do the downloads while you're in Windows then boot into Linux and mount the Windows partition so you can copy the files into the Linux partition(s). Alternatively you could see if there is LUG (Linux Users Group) in your area and ask them. Most LUG folks are more than happy to share to get others to use Linux. |
I ought to specify.
When I boot Windows XP, I have clear access to the internet, and full use of my wireless card. When I boot Ubuntu, the Network Manager proves useless to me in every way. |
How much experience do you have with Linux? For example do you know what ndiswrapper is?
If you already have ndiswrapper on your machine then you should be able to use the Windows wireless driver. BTW here is a security notice about your hardware. http://support.dell.com/support/topi...doclang=en&cs= from this page http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?...s+1390&cat=all It looks like the first url didn't get completely copied. Unfortunately for you I am using Kubuntu so I don't know what wireless network configuration applications are available on Ubuntu with Gnome. On Kubuntu you can use KNetworkManager to configure wireless connections. It's pretty easy to use. |
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I do know what ndiswrapper is, and have avoided using it, as per the advice pertaining to the success rate of it being compatible to my wireless card. Thus, the previous attempts to connect I have cleaned the system, then proceeded to attempt to connect. Several times starting out I attempted to use it, to no avail. Also, thank you for the security announcement. |
Dell has a bit of a predilection for Broadcom wireless cards, which is unfortunate since Broadcom doesn't see fit to cooperate with the Linux world. However, before going off the deep end, lets get some data to be sure of what we're working with. Please post the output of lspci and lsmod and we'll go from there.
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If the card is a Broadcom card ndiswrapper is probably going to be your best option.
As suggested, list your specifics and go from there. |
lpsci:
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00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10) lsmod: Code:
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Now do be aware that the b43 driver can be flaky since it was developed entirely by reverse engineering. A lot of people with Broadcom stuff prefer using ndiswrapper and the Windows driver. If you go that route, be sure to blacklist b43, and possibly ssb as well. |
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