[ubuntu-in] wireless in Hardy

[Vishal Rao]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Mir Nazim <mirnazim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys.
>
>  After endless battles to setup broadcom card I have decided to give
>  PCMCIA wifi cards.
>
>  <POSSIBLY OFF TOPIC>
>
>  Can anyone suggest me what card should I buy. I mean your views of
>  best possible cost vs performance.
>
>
>  </POSSIBLY OFF TOPIC>

I also almost had an endless battle :-)

I realised the "ssb" module was not getting unloaded even after
blacklisting. Only the b43 would go. Plus, the ethernet eth0
interface would prevent wlan0 from working if it was up So in my
rc.local (after setting up ndiswrapper) I added the following lines:

rmmod ssb
rmmod ndiswrapper
modprobe ndiswrapper
ifdown eth0
ifdown wlan0
ifup wlan0

There is probably a better way to get it working (Im almost a noob)
but now wireless works for me :-)
Of course I followed the ndiswrapper steps to get wlan0 up the first
time then provided settings like
wlan ID and WPA2 password etc in NetworkManager
(System->Administration->Network)...

HTH

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