Getting wireless to work in ubuntu?

quackers · 14 Mar 2009 at 13:52

Lo all,

I've rescued an old laptop from the IT scrap head, just to mess about with different distros etc

Anyhow, i've installed 8.10 done all the updates but the enable wireless is greyed out in the network manager.

It's in intel pro/wireless bg2200 in there, i'm currently trying to follow this guide to install ndiswrapper

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=9454

any ideas?

quackers · 15 Mar 2009 at 20:42

Well something very strange has just happened, just to make sure the wireless card was working ok i shrank the ubuntu partition and installed xp in the unallocated space. Got the wireless card working in xp and i've just rebooted back in ubuntu and it came up asking me to use my wireless password and the wireless is now working :confused:

How the heck has it started working?

Edit: I did update the bios as well, as i'm trying to boot from a usb pendrive

masterluke · 15 Mar 2009 at 21:53

i have the same card in my laptop (IBM X40) and it works on ubuntu out of the box

quackers · 15 Mar 2009 at 22:10

Did it make any difference to the ubuntu settings if it was turned off by the button?

yashiro · 15 Mar 2009 at 22:12

Possibly a bug related to the killswitch settings in the driver.

dan653 · 16 Mar 2009 at 15:44

have you tried using wicd? (should be available through synaptic)