[juneau-lug] Re: Ubuntu anyone?

  • From: Chris Ruschmann <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:20:08 -0800

Have you tried this for your Wireless?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=31926

Nels Tomlinson wrote:
> I'm using Ubuntu, and am just about fed up with Gnome, but I don't have wifi
> on a laptop so can't help much with that.
> I do know that the several generations of wifi (b and g and so on) use at
> least two different frequencies.  It might be that the linux driver for your
> particular wifi card only does one of those frequencies, and the Silverbow
> does only the other?  You could investigate that by looking up the driver
> for your card, and checking if it has any limitations.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Nels
>
> On 7/17/07, Jake D. Rake <butt_muppet70@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
>> Hey folks, I'm brand new to the list, pretty new to linux, and relatively
>> new to Juneau.
>>
>> So, I just bought an Averatec 3200 laptop, it's real portable and cheap
>> and
>> seems to work greatt, and trying to run Kubuntu on it. I love the KDE
>> desktop, but I'm struggling to get my wi-fi working.
>>
>> For some reason my wireless works on Windows XP in the Silverbow but not
>> on
>> KDE. However, wi-fi on XP won't work in the downtown library but I got KDE
>> to connect for about 3 minutes.
>>
>> Agggh. Well, leave it to the new guy to dump all his computer problems on
>> the list, but I was just wondering who's out there that uses K/Ubuntu. It
>> would rock my word to infinitity if I could get online and actually be a
>> productive person. Either way, I'd like to meet other people in Juneau who
>> use it, cuz I think it has a lot of potential for people like me who try
>> to
>> avoid command lines and programming language.
>>
>> Okay, well take care, and if somebody feels filling up on good karma, call
>> my cell anytime at 509.432.1674
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jake
>>
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