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I am using Ubuntu, and our whole network is wireless.

This poses a PROBLEM:

No version of Linux has been able to set a WiFi connection up successfuly.

I have used NDIS Wrapper with no luck, and the GUI Windows Wireless Driver program.

I am trying to use a WG111 USB Wireless Adapter

Does anyone know of any really good automatic wifi setup programs for Linux?

(I am using Ubuntu)

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I am using Ubuntu, and our whole network is wireless.

This poses a problem:

No version of Linux has been able to set a WiFi connection up successfuly.

I have used NDIS Wrapper with no luck, and the GUI Windows Wireless Driver program.

I am trying to use a WG111 USB Wireless Adapter

Does anyone know of any really good automatic wifi setup programs for Linux?

(I am using Ubuntu)

Thanks


If you don't get a REPLY to solve it here, and want to keep looking around for help, try www.linuxquestions.org
See the forums there. Very active.

There are distro specific sub-forums too - including Ubuntu.
I don't usually follow it - I just stumble through the newbie forum mainly.

I see questions all the time about wifi troubles. Apparently it is a common thing. If you use the Search function there, you'll find a lot of posts to look through. Maybe that will help. Hope so.






The trick to Linux networking problems is to BUY hardware that is already known to work and have drivers for Linux.

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The trick to Linux networking problems is to buy hardware that is already known to work and have drivers for Linux.

I'm sure you love getting that advice right now!!!!
It is shown on some resources to be compatinble, one user of the Ubuntu forums posted info on exactly how to get the WG111 to work, however, I didnt have the absolutely Linux compatible driver.

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If you don't get a reply to solve it here, and want to keep looking around for help, try www.linuxquestions.org
See the forums there. Very active.

There are distro specific sub-forums too - including Ubuntu.
I don't usually follow it - I just stumble through the newbie forum mainly.

I see questions all the time about wifi troubles. Apparently it is a common thing. If you use the Search function there, you'll find a lot of posts to look through. Maybe that will help. Hope so.
I will try that sometime, thanks Willy WQuote from: Zylstra on March 24, 2007, 07:39:35 PM
I am using Ubuntu, and our whole network is wireless.

This poses a problem:

No version of Linux has been able to set a WiFi connection up successfuly.

I have used NDIS Wrapper with no luck, and the GUI Windows Wireless Driver program.

I am trying to use a WG111 USB Wireless Adapter

Does anyone know of any really good automatic wifi setup programs for Linux?

(I am using Ubuntu)

Thanks

I'm a Linux noob and if I can do this, so can you.
First I wouldn't be looking for a "wifi setup program"...that is already built into most current distros.

What you need is the correct driver for the chipset in your wireless device.
If I had my druthers, I would go for a supported PCI or PCMCIA card before a USB device. I consider USB for networking a compromise.

Anyway, as Rob Pomeroy stated, seek supported hardware.

Here are a couple of lists that I used when shopping for my LAPTOP card :
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_hostif.php?hostif=PCMCIA
http://seattlewireless.net/HardwareComparison

One of my desktops uses a D-Link DWL-G510 PCI card and the other has a Linksys WMP54G PCI card.

Both of these machines were point-and-click easy to set up under Kubuntu 6.06 and SuSE 10.0

The easiest setup for me thus far was my old lappy using an Orinoco "Silver" PCMCIA card under Puppy 2.14

All of these setups were done with the built-in Linux drivers.
No downloading drivers, no command line.

The key is to start with the correct hardware.

Edit:
Add PCLinuxOS with the DWL- G510 (Atheros chipset) to the mix
It seems that the majority of the problem was that I have a WG111v2, which has had some compatibility problems with Linux...

I decided to give up for now, but I will be trying again later. I was hoping to get Ubutnu server running (yeah, I know, it wouldent do too well on WiFi) but our electricity BILL is sky-rocketing already!

I am going to try linuxquestions.org and see if there is another solution. I would also like to attempt to get both Windows and Linux installed, but we will see how that works out later.


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