Help configuring my wireless card in Ubuntu

[Borden]

Hi all,

So i managed to get Ubuntu installed yesterday with my Shipit cd and i'm having a bit of trouble getting my wireless card setup.

I've had a look on the Ubuntu forums and it seems that my card (Linksys WMP54GS) is well supported but it's my noobness that's holding me back.

This particular thread (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=152292) seemed quite helpful and i tried out the suggestion in post no.6

The problem i have is that i don't know how to create a script so i can't get very far.

Any help would be great

 

[Borden]

Thanks for the reply

I'll boot into Ubuntu and post back with how i get on.

 

[Borden]

Well i managed to save the script alright without any permision errors but i then got a permission error when i was making it executable. It said that i wasn't the owner when i tried changing the permisions so i tried changing the ownership. That didn't work as it said i didn't have the permissions

So i left that and carried on with the next steps in post no.6 and rebooted but the internet didn't work. So does the script need to be executable?

I may end up taking my pc downstairs to the ethernet conenction and using apt-get to install ndiswrapper and use that to install my windows drivers.

 

[Borden]

Yes you need to make it executable. Do sudo chmod a+x filename on it to make it executable.

That's what i did. It says that i don't have the permissions needed to make it executable.

EDIT: Ah i see there's sudo there. I'll try that

 

[Borden]

Well, sudo or not, it's not working. I'm going to try ndiswrapper, i just need to wait till my relatives leave so i have some spare time

Thanks for the suggestions so far