[HLUG] wireless on ubuntu lucid

[Paul Stenning]

I am running Ubunti 10.4 on my Eee PC 701 and haven't had to change the 
kernal or recompile anything, it works OK.  I don't know what wireless 
card is in it though.

I do have two problems with it, neither of which are a big deal at the 
moment:

The MAC address of the wireless adaptor seems to change periodically 
(several days) meaning I cannot use MAC locking on the router.  I 
thought the MAC address was set in hardware/firmware but obviously not.

The wireless would not connect if I enabled the higher speed 802.11n 
functionality in the router (even though it is supposed to be backward 
compatible) so I am running on 802.11g.  I don't have any 802.11n 
equipment anyway so it's not a big deal.

Paul

On 10/05/2010 18:28, Sarah Chard wrote:
> I have upgraded without problems all my desktops to ubuntu 10.04 lucid
> the only hiccup was getting flash going on the 64bit but it did not take
> long. I would like to try the Netbook version on my eee 1000h to replace
> the old version of eeebuntu i am running but I have read that there are
> problems with the ralink wireless drivers which means you have to
> install the 2.6.33 kernel and compile the rt2860 driver.
> I should probably wait for the update which will solve the problem but
>   has anyone tried it on on a eee 1000h or similar?
> Sarah
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