Wireless Devices

As you may or not know, installing Wireless in Ubuntu is one of the hardest thing todo. In fact, I almost gave up on wireless because I was getting so sick and tired of it. I will tell you now, If you do follow my steps exactly, you should be able to get wirelesss working on Ubuntu Edgy Eft. (6.10)

Step 1: Download the newest ndiswrapper from here and save it to your DESKTOP

Stem 2: Open up the terminal and type:

• cd Desktop
• tar -xzf ndiswrapper-1.33.tar.gz
• cd ndiswrapper 1.33
• make
• make install

That will install ndiswrapper. Now its time to install the wireless drivers. Find the wireless driver and place it on your desktop. Go back to the terminal and type the following

• ndiswrapper -i “name of driver”.inf

This will install the driver. Now all you have to do is check to see if it installed properly. Put the wireless device into the system. then go back to the terminal and type:

• ndiswrapper -l

The terminal should produce and output saying hardware detected. If there is an error message, then you may have done something wrong. Now that you have installed the device, reboot the computer. After that, plug in the device (if you have not already). Then, go to System>Administration>Networking You will see a list with the connections pluged in to the computer. Wireless should be on the list. Click on that and configure it with your network settings. If this process failed and you have tried it again and again, then comment this post and I will get back to you shortly.