Ubuntu wifi

crazystar · **Posted:** Fri 03-07-2008 4:58PM

Anybody willing to help me setup university wifi on my Ubuntu installation?

IT people are not willing to help because "Linux" is not supported.

RsaXVC · **Posted:** Tue 03-18-2008 1:25PM

what wifi card are you using?

janascii · **Posted:** Tue 03-18-2008 7:49PM

Also which version of ubuntu, some stuff only works with newer kernels.

kjk437 · **Posted:** Thu 03-20-2008 9:55AM

Well, I had to fight this through my latest desktop, but here's where I found all the information I needed.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... sSupported

EDIT: BTW, mine was a Marvell 88w8335+88w8010 running under Gutsy (7.10), and it wasn't supposed to work, but ndiswrapper made it so.

benm · **Posted:** Thu 03-20-2008 12:31PM

crazystar wrote:

Anybody willing to help me setup university wifi on my Ubuntu installation?

IT people are not willing to help because "Linux" is not supported.

You should email Dan Uetrecht and see if Linux is really not supported... seeing how we're Missouri's Premier Technological Institute after all...

uetrecht@mst.edu

Kamakazi · **Posted:** Thu 03-20-2008 3:50PM

With Ubuntu 7.10 and my Intel wireless card on my laptop I just set it up just like you would with Windows, and put in my username and password, and I was on.

crazystar · **Posted:** Wed 04-02-2008 9:59AM

Well I have a HP TX1000 with ndiswrapper-broadcom drivers installed.
I have installed gutsy gibbon with the latest kernel.
Anything else?

janascii · **Posted:** Thu 04-03-2008 10:53AM

I run 7.10 on my laptop with the restricted broadcom drivers. It is fairly stable, although once and a while it will just stop working.

RsaXVC · **Posted:** Thu 04-03-2008 10:54AM

I've had pretty good luck with broadcoms using their restricted drivers. It should be availably within the Restricted Driver Manager

crazystar · **Posted:** Thu 04-03-2008 7:58PM

janascii wrote:

I run 7.10 on my laptop with the restricted broadcom drivers. It is fairly stable, although once and a while it will just stop working.

RsaXVC wrote:

I've had pretty good luck with broadcoms using their restricted drivers. It should be availably within the Restricted Driver Manager

Both of you have hp tx1000???

fxblast · **Posted:** Mon 04-07-2008 9:44AM

The wireless card on my laptop, which is a Dell 1390 (using the Broadcom 4311 chipset I think) will work with both fwcutter and ndiswrapper under Ubuntu 7.10, but would not work with any of the MST wifi points when I tried it. When testing it in Kelly, Comp Sci, and the library, I could connect to the MST connections (WPA, PSK, and open) but I would be disconnected only after a few minutes and it would take a couple minutes afterward to reconnect to the wifi point, though I could stay connected to my floormate's and my routers (both Linksys WRT54G). I'm not sure if the wifi issue is with the access points or my card, but I was unsuccessful at getting my wireless to work with any MST wlan connection.

RsaXVC · **Posted:** Tue 04-08-2008 7:21PM

I've installed linux for a number of people-If I had any time, I'd offer to take a look in person.

crazystar · **Posted:** Wed 04-09-2008 5:54PM

RsaXVC wrote:

I've installed linux for a number of people-If I had any time, I'd offer to take a look in person.

tell me place and time..will be there.

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