cant get wireless
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can you give a little more info on what model eee you have, and what the dual boot is i.e. xp/ubuntu ...
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hi,
try following this wiki.eeeuser.com/hardy_on_eee901
and especially with linux it pays to follow guides to the tee.
abe
try following this wiki.eeeuser.com/hardy_on_eee901
and especially with linux it pays to follow guides to the tee.
abe
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Wireless on linux has been a weakness from what I've heard and seen. I know many people are interested in these netbooks and have started creating custom distributions for them. You might want to wait a few months and hopefully it will get sorted out, or as abe said start googling like mad. There aren't too many models of netbooks so it should be resolved already, either an incorrect setting or covered in a wiki or howto. I know with my new graphics card/mb ubuntu wouldn't shutdown properly, however in all the releases now it works flawlessly, I just chose to wait it out rather then deal with all the crap myself. I simply ran a different distribution, and you may want to do the same. IIRC there is quite a few netbook specific distributions from ubuntu variations to xandros etc. Try a different one if you want, all linux is pretty similar except for little things (well little but significant sometimes.)
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Have you installed all of the Ubuntu updates? I recently installed 8.10 on an old HP laptop with a Linksys PC card wireless adapter. The system wouldn't recognize it until I connected it by wired ethernet, Ubuntu ran the update search, installed about 150 updates, and now everything's golden.
(I'm a Linux noob, too)
(I'm a Linux noob, too)
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I noticed he said ubuntu 8.10, is that a stock ubuntu install or the netbook specific version? I'm sure there is a significant difference in drive support etc.
i did install all the updates, if I remember there were over 200. Its just a stock version of linux. I tried the ndiswrapper from that link and it says the driver is invald. It wants a inf file and the driver is sys. I got lose on the rest but will try again later today
So just an update for those that helped. eeebuntu 2.0 didnt work just quite right and gave me a lot of issues when I tried to install. The eee pc dosent come with a disc drive and booting from an external dosent always work. So in turn I used wubi to install ubuntu 8.10. Got everything working except wireless. Then I installed the kernel for the eeepc. So when I boot I can choose between windows, ubuntu, or ubuntu with eeepc. Works great now!!
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Nice job - glad you got it working!
Bset way for Wireless Linux
the best way that works is a wireless bridge from that CAT 5 to your NIC (Network Interface Card)
Yes it is extra package and perhaps a extra battery or power supply for hot plug ins like hotels,,,,ect . But most of the manufacturers of WIFI chip sets are in bed with Microsoft corporation and to release there driver for Open Source Linux OS Distos would put a hurting on the Windows market bed. As my experience and much frustration with my laptop and all the Fedora cores 1-10 over BroadCom WIFI card the extra baggage is much better on my nerves
the best way that works is a wireless bridge from that CAT 5 to your NIC (Network Interface Card)
Yes it is extra package and perhaps a extra battery or power supply for hot plug ins like hotels,,,,ect . But most of the manufacturers of WIFI chip sets are in bed with Microsoft corporation and to release there driver for Open Source Linux OS Distos would put a hurting on the Windows market bed. As my experience and much frustration with my laptop and all the Fedora cores 1-10 over BroadCom WIFI card the extra baggage is much better on my nerves
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Not sure if you know but you need to tap esc at the first screen that loads, just keep tapping it until the menu pops up. Then just select the drive you want to boot off, either a usb drive or an SD card.
The eee 1000hd has an atheros wireless card, I'd suggest downloading and installing the madwifi driver. I've had nothing but problems with the standard ath5k driver that loads.
follow this guide here, forum.eeebuntu.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1672&start=0
(sorry, just registered so I can't post links)
Just follow the part about installing the madwifi driver, don't worry about the scripts.
I have a eee 1000ha, i'm running eeebuntu on it also. But I'm looking at trying out freebsd on it, it looks like they have fixed most of the problems that freebsd had on the eeepc.
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