Solve : Ubuntu Drivers?

1.	Solve : Ubuntu Drivers?
Answer» So I just set up a dual boot on my dell inspiron 1521 with 2gb ram and a 160gb harddrive.I got all the drivers and for my vista PARTITION but with ubuntu 8.04 I do not.The reason is because I dont have access to the internet.I can get internet, but Id have to have the wireless drivers set up, either that or I could plug into the router at school.But when I plugged into the router at home it wouldnt connect to the internet so I dont know.I heard that if you want internet to work with ubuntu you have to have it plugged into the router while downloading ubuntu, is this true?Is there anyway to get the drivers without internet on my inspiron 1521, like download the drivers on another computer then copy them to a cd and move them to my inspiron 1521?Ive really had trouble with this so please HELP, BTW yes I did have ubuntu before but someone helped set it up and then the harddrive failed and so I jsut got another one from deell and set up the dual boot.PLEASE HELP.Quote from: cheese11 on MAY 12, 2008, 02:15:29 PM I heard that if you want internet to work with ubuntu you have to have it plugged into the router while downloading ubuntu, is this true? No. The method of downloading the Ubuntu iso file, and the computer it's downloaded on have absolutely nothing to do with the installation. Tell us about the network at home. You have a router, but is it connected to an always-on internet service like cable, FiOS or DSL? I assume there is a cable modem. Are there other PCs connected to the router that work? The normal configuration is for either the router or cable modem to do network address translation (NAT -- this allows multiple PCs to share one real IP address) and to act as a DHCP server to tell the PCs what local IP address to use. Yours is almost certainly setup this way by default. Do you know if it's been changed? What does the command /sbin/ifconfig eth0 show? Is an address assigned? The second line should say something like this: inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 If an address is assigned, what does the command netstat -nr say? There should be at least two entries: one with gateway 0.0.0.0 and one with destination 0.0.0.0.Ubuntu should already have the drivers for that laptop. It's just a matter of turning on the wireless ADAPTER. On the upper right of your screen you should see an applet icon for networking. If you right click on it you it should give you the option to enable networking and enable wireless networking. If these are not checked, check both then left click and you should be able to SELECT your wireless network. (due to my set up I could have gotten my left and right backwards ) . Hope this helps. We have Ubuntu on my wifes laptop and Kubuntu on our desktops.

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So I just set up a dual boot on my dell inspiron 1521 with 2gb ram and a 160gb harddrive.I got all the drivers and for my vista PARTITION but with ubuntu 8.04 I do not.The reason is because I dont have access to the internet.I can get internet, but Id have to have the wireless drivers set up, either that or I could plug into the router at school.But when I plugged into the router at home it wouldnt connect to the internet so I dont know.I heard that if you want internet to work with ubuntu you have to have it plugged into the router while downloading ubuntu, is this true?Is there anyway to get the drivers without internet on my inspiron 1521, like download the drivers on another computer then copy them to a cd and move them to my inspiron 1521?Ive really had trouble with this so please HELP, BTW yes I did have ubuntu before but someone helped set it up and then the harddrive failed and so I jsut got another one from deell and set up the dual boot.PLEASE HELP.Quote from: cheese11 on MAY 12, 2008, 02:15:29 PM

I heard that if you want internet to work with ubuntu you have to have it plugged into the router while downloading ubuntu, is this true?

No. The method of downloading the Ubuntu iso file, and the computer it's downloaded on have absolutely nothing to do with the installation.

Tell us about the network at home. You have a router, but is it connected to an always-on internet service like cable, FiOS or DSL? I assume there is a cable modem. Are there other PCs connected to the router that work?

The normal configuration is for either the router or cable modem to do network address translation (NAT -- this allows multiple PCs to share one real IP address) and to act as a DHCP server to tell the PCs what local IP address to use. Yours is almost certainly setup this way by default. Do you know if it's been changed?

What does the command /sbin/ifconfig eth0 show? Is an address assigned? The second line should say something like this:
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

If an address is assigned, what does the command netstat -nr say? There should be at least two entries: one with gateway 0.0.0.0 and one with destination 0.0.0.0.Ubuntu should already have the drivers for that laptop. It's just a matter of turning on the wireless ADAPTER.

On the upper right of your screen you should see an applet icon for networking. If you right click on it you it should give you the option to enable networking and enable wireless networking. If these are not checked, check both then left click and you should be able to SELECT your wireless network. (due to my set up I could have gotten my left and right backwards ) .

Hope this helps.

We have Ubuntu on my wifes laptop and Kubuntu on our desktops.

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