[Lincs] laptop os

[iain Baker]

hi guys, thanks for your help... it is a broadcom 802.11b/g card - no
revision number... wow windows sucks for giving information!!!

i'll give ubuntu a spin... i was going to try suse but the download i
did wouldnt install :(  i'll look for 64 bit ubuntu BB

On 4/14/06, MD <barodato at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/14/06, garry saddington <garry at schoolteachers.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 11:42 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> > > On 14/04/06, iain Baker <iain.dbaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > hi guys,
> > > > i have just ought a HP Pavilion dv5000 series Laptop with wireless
> > > > networking... does anyone know a distro that has worked with this
> > > > laptop and had the wireless card active?
> > >
> > I had a laptop for teachers machine which was a HP. Ubuntu/Edubuntu
> > worked straight away. Best ones to try for an out of box working install
> > in my experience.
> > Regards
> > Garry
>
> I use ubuntu 5.10 on my laptop. Ubuntu will most likely work on
> anything; its auto-config is excellent. I'm a bit of a console fan,
> but with ubuntu, it is easy to get away without having to touch an
> xterm at all.
>
> Wifi with WEP will work out of the box with virtually no
> configuration, but WPA-PSK is a little more tricky. I only got it
> working with the SSID being broadcast; not a huge security hole, but I
> would have preferred it to be obscured.
>
> WPA support using the GUI is one thing I'm hoping they'll add to the
> new release of ubuntu. The current GUI is rather irritating as it
> keeps overwriting the config files whilst I'm in the middle of making
> changes. For WPA-PSK you will need to venture into the console and do
> some minor conf file hacking, specifically with wpasupplicant.
>
> My only experience has been with the ipw2200 driver for the Intel PRO
> wireless chip you get in most centrino laptops, but I suspect that HP
> you have will probably use a Broadcom chip. You should be able to get
> it working using ndiswrapper.
>
> Best thing to do is make sure you can establish an unencrypted
> connection first, and then move onto adding all the encryption and
> security features.
>
> If you google for an ubuntu WIFI or WPA HOWTO, you're bound to find
> many helpful articles. Ubuntuforums.org has loads, but there are
> plenty of other HOWTOs on other sites.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> -Matt Dancer <barodato at gmail dot com>
>
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