[Klug-general] Wireless Adapter -Ubuntu

Mon Nov 2 18:46:19 UTC 2009

Agreed.

I have an old 11mbit Prism USB Wireless stick I use for this too (that way I
can still be remote when doing so).

A lot of wireless drivers that are fetched from the internet use proprietary
firmware - which is why it's not included...

Spode

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On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk> wrote:

> One thing worth noting is that Ubuntu does its best to find drivers for
> things - but only if it is already connected to the internet.  The way I
> handled this with my Linksys card was to have the laptop connected via a
> wired connection before running up Ubuntu.  It then detects the card and
> asks if I want to install the restricted driver.  After doing so I could
> remove the wired connection and wireless was fine.  This worked with
> 7.10 and 9.04.
>
> Mike
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