I have just installed Ubuntu (the newest version) on an older Dell laptop.So far I love it but I cannot get onto my wireless internet because I cannot find the driver for my PCI Linksys wireless card. I am at a loss. Because this is so new to me I am not sure where to start. Let me give you some background on me. I have been building and reloading computers for years now but always with Windows operating systems. I have had enough of Windows so I am going to learn all over again. If you can help me I would appreciate it but please be gentle as I am a newbie in the true sense of the word.

What's the exact model of the card?

If you cannot find a Linux native driver, I heard of 'ndiswrapper', which lets you use a Windows network driver in Linux. I have no experience with it, though.

As asked by MTK358, we need to know the exact model of the wireless chip in order to help you. This can be found out using the following command entered into a terminal

Please run that command and post the output here on the forum.

Cheers,

Evo2.

PS. Please don't go chasing ndiswrapper unless it becomes clear that there really is no native linux driver.

Hi stix309,

I little light reading may help, check out the following sites may be of use:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDISwrapper

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...itle=Main_Page

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/interne...iswrapper.html

I hope this is of help

Jnike

r u on laptop? if you r on laptop then the troubleshoot is of different type.. firstly le'me clear this thing..