Agreed.<br><br>I have an old 11mbit Prism USB Wireless stick I use for this too (that way I can still be remote when doing so).<br><br>A lot of wireless drivers that are fetched from the internet use proprietary firmware - which is why it's not included...<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Mike Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@tandem.f9.co.uk">mike@tandem.f9.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
One thing worth noting is that Ubuntu does its best to find drivers for<br>
things - but only if it is already connected to the internet. The way I<br>
handled this with my Linksys card was to have the laptop connected via a<br>
wired connection before running up Ubuntu. It then detects the card and<br>
asks if I want to install the restricted driver. After doing so I could<br>
remove the wired connection and wireless was fine. This worked with<br>
7.10 and 9.04.<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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