<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">alternatively go and buy a well supported linux usb stick/pcmcia card... at least that<br>will get you on to the network, while you fix this darn wireless driver problems.<br><br>When are wireless chip makers going to understand open source drivers?<br><br>what are the protecting, are the scared I'm going to reprogram the mac and <br>physical layer protocols? hey, that's a good idea, anyone up for writing something <br>better than the current 802.11 CSMA/CA ?<br><br>;-)<br><br>Cheers,<br>Lee<br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 30/9/08, Paul Lancaster <i><paul_lancaster@blueyonder.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Paul Lancaster <paul_lancaster@blueyonder.co.uk><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] A newbee without a scooby :O)<br>To: "Tayside Linux User Group"
<dundee@lists.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Tuesday, 30 September, 2008, 11:11 PM<br><br><pre>On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 11:51 +0100, STEVENS, GRAEME wrote:<br>> Hello <br>> As a newbee to Linux this is likely to not be the last question I ask.<br>> Im sure though Ill end up slapping my forehead at the obvious answers<br>> I just couldn't find. <br>> <br>> Problem 1. I have ubuntu on a Toshiba Laptop and have tried in vain to<br>> get the wireless working on it, Ive been using the correct SSID and<br>> WEP key but it just wont connect, except via ethernet. Any ideas?<br>> <br>Try turning off the security to establish if you have the wireless card<br>working correctly. I seem to remember someone posting a good while ago<br>re- problems with Toshiba wireless - hopefully this may prick someone<br>elses memory.<br><br>Paul<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing
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