What's your Linux notebook PC WiFi experience been like?
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• Configuring wifi (Topcom skyr@cer 4054G) in ubuntu 5.10
  2006-01-11 01:41:47  Jeroen_Devroede [Reply | View]
  
  
  located the driver
  
  You have to use the file mrv8335.inf which can be found in the win98 folder in the driver directory of the CD shipped with the Topcom wifi card. Copy the file to your hard drive. This is the only file of all .inf en .sys files on the CD that has worked under my HW config.
  
  Use NDISWrapper to install the driver
  In het terminalvenster, ga naar de directory waar je de WiFi driver hebt gesaved, en run:
  
  sudo ndiswrapper -i mrv8335.inf
  
  Run ndiswrapper -m
  Run modprobe ndiswrapper
  
  Check the installation by running the following command: sudo ndiswrapper -l ,and when the installation was successfull, you should get something back like
  
  Installed ndis drivers:
  mrv8335 driver present, hardware present
  
  Now run iwconfig. You should get a list of all available network adapters, also containing an entry "wlan0" containing details of your connection
  
  The following section is two-fold:
  
  Either you use the ubuntu-embedded network-adminGUI (worked perfect for me as long as I did not use 128-bit encryption, but 64-bit encryption), or use the vi editor to manually edit the interfaces file
  
  Network-admin GUI:
  open network-admin.
  The wifi connection should be listed.
  First click on properties.
  Enter the (e)ssid of your wifi infrastructure and check the activate checkbox.
  Enter your hexadecimal network key (64-bit).
  Confirm this screen.
  Click on the activate button.
  Your card should come alive.
  Open your firefox browser to check the result.
  
  Editing network interface file manually
  This file is located in /etc/network should look like this after you edited it.
  # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
  # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
  
  # The loopback network interface
  auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback
  
  # This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
  # They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
  mapping hotplug
  script grep
  map eth0
  
  iface wlan0 inet dhcp
  wireless_keymode open
  wireless_key XXXXXXXXXenter here your 64-bit network keyXXXXXXXXXXXX
  wireless_mode managed
  wireless_essid XXXXXenter here your essidXXXXXX
  wireless_nick XXXXXXXXXXX
  
  auto wlan0
  
  
  Good luck!
  
  Jeroen Devroede
  
  The most usefull link I found with excellent information on this topic is http://wiki.ubuntu.org.cn/WiFiHowto

• It just works
  2005-04-25 13:53:14  facundobatista [Reply | View]
  
  
  I never used a laptop during several days before. And never used WiFi, even for a minute.
  
  The company I work in loaned a IBM ThinkPad with a Nokia WiFi card for my presentations & sprint in PyCon 2005.
  
  The laptop came with Win XP, :(, but I resized the partition and installed Ubuntu.
  
  Do you know all I had to make for WiFi to work? Nothing.
  
  Yes, nothing. When I arrived to the conference, took the WiFi card, plugged it in the PCMCIA slot, and it just worked.
  
  Fantastic, :)
  
  . Facundo
  
  Bitácora De Vuelo: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog
  PyAr - Python Argentina: http://www.python.org/ar/
  
  

• wireless notebook
  2005-04-23 10:54:36  rr-59 [Reply | View]
  
  
  I have a IBM A2Om laptop 700 mz 12gb hard drive I am using a wpc11 ver3 linksys card and a dlink router. i tried mempis, ubuntu, fedora core 3,knoppix, Linspire 4.5 and 5-0 .Linspire and knoppix are the only ones that my card will work with and they both work without any effort on my part. Linspre is a very good operating system!

• wifi and linux (xandra 3.0)
  2005-04-23 00:02:22  dompie [Reply | View]
  
  
  I tried to get the wireless (INPROCOMM2220 - neti2220) working using ndiswrapper but NO USE.
  The card comes with teh ACER ASPIRE 1801 notebook and works perfectly in WINXP.
  I tied withMandrake 10.1, Mandrake MOVE, Knoppix 3.3 and 3.4 and UBUNTU 5.04 Live CD: the results.
  
  Any help is welcome, because ACER says: We do not support LINUX.

• Is your WIFi access point uses WEP?
  2005-04-22 07:10:39  maximdim [Reply | View]
  
  
  I cannot get my notebook with Ubunty to connect to wireless no matter what I try - card (Lucent Orinoco) seems to be recognized but failed to obtain ip address from DHCP...
• Is your WIFi access point uses WEP?
  2005-04-24 18:27:52  rick_ap [Reply | View]
  
  
  I had the same problem with Ubuntu and found the solution by entering the WEP key in hexidecimal in the Ubuntu wireless adapter configuration.
  
  I have a Dell Inspiron 4100 with an Orinoco Gold card that works flawlessly with Fedora but would not work with Ubuntu at all. I always enter the WEP key in XP and Fedora in ASCII but the AP and card will accept ASCII or hexidecimal.
  
  It finally dawned on me to try hexidecimal and it worked.
  
  If you're not deep into binary, hexidecimal, etc., you can convert the ASCII WEP key to hexidecimal here:
  http://centricle.com/tools/ascii-hex/
  
  Simply enter the ASCII string and click Translate. Copy the hexidecimal WEP key down and enter it into Ubuntu.
  
  Hope this helps and good luck with Linux.
  
  Rick
• Is your WIFi access point uses WEP?
  2005-07-14 16:44:13  ChrisHand [Reply | View]
  
  
  You can enter an ASCII password instead of a HEX string (fortunately, if you're using 128bit WEP...)
  
  Prefix the string with s: in the WEP Key field in the Wireless Settings. This doesn't seem to be officially documented anywhere at the moment, but it worked for me.
  
  Chris
• Is your WIFi access point uses WEP?
  2005-04-23 00:27:11  Todd Ogasawara [Reply | View]
  
  
  Yes, WEP is turned on. If you tried to connect using wifi0, try the eth1 (eth0 is wired ethernet port).

• apple extreme != Linux wifi
  2005-04-22 04:50:13  Steve Mallett [Reply | View]
  
  
  I've known for sometime that the extreme "g" wifi cards in the apple machines don't have an open source driver, but tried Ubuntu & Kubuntu over the last two days hoping against hope. No luck. I'm tethered to my router right now ironically enough.
  
  Apple (Broadcomm - makers of the cards) set your wifi free!