[matt_aj]

Ok, I am a totally newbie when it comes to Linux. I have tried Fedora 3 in the past and could never get my wireless card to work. I just installed Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) and the card shows up in device manager just fine but doesn't show up in the network properties to configure it. Is there a way to get this to work?

I have a linksys WMP54G card.

[matt_aj]

bump

[pshnfry]

Any luck? I'm looking at picking up a PCI wireless card today to try in Ubuntu and Mandriva and would be interested in any resources of use you found.

Cheers,

Peter.

[Tapeuup]

you will need to activate it, goto system, Administration, Networking.
click on the device and properties to configure it, you may have to manually install your IP etc.

[tsunam]

The problem with that particular card is that it is a 99% guarantee that it runs a broadcom chipset. Broadcom is notorious for not supporting linux and just generally being a pain to deal with. That isn't to say there isn't hope. If you could, open up a terminal and as root type lspci. I'm looking for a line like this 02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10). It will however be for your wireless card instead of a wired one. If you return that we might find that you have a newer card that has native linux support!

If its not natively supported there is still hope with a program called ndiswrapper, which wraps the windows drivers so that you can use the card in linux.

[matt_aj]

Been there... Done all that. I had tried NDIS Wrapper in the past with Fedora and never had any luck. I got the wireless to enable, but still would not show up in network devices. I didnt know if there was an easier way. I wanted to go to Linux because of the ease of use. Guess I was way off on that.

[matt_aj]

And yes, it is a Broadcom... Ive been researching a lot on it and no place I can find that they got the Broadcom Chipset to work.

[Tapeuup]

I just downloaded Kubuntu and installed it, I am new to Linux as well. I would suggest to install Kubuntu,it is like an ubuntu upgrade. Kubuntu installed everything unlike ubuntu which I had to configure the network configurations etc. ubuntu is a nice OS but I believe I will favor Kubuntu, the web browser is Konqueror so I'm kind of lost there but made it here.

[tsunam]

erm...kubuntu is just ubuntu with kde as the Desktop manager ^.^;;

[Tapeuup]

I understand and has better hardware support among other things.

[jarchack]

I've never had a problem with bcm chipsets with deb based distros>

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