Wireless PCI cards and archives

Mike Smith mikeosmith at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 15:27:02 UTC 2004


> 1. I installed Ubuntu on my daughter's computer, which
> has two hard drives. I unplugged the second drive
> during install because I was afraid I would wipe out
> her data. I then plugged it back in and rebooted. My
> problem is that I don't see the second drive or its
> data under Disks or Filesystem. When I check the
> Device Manager, I do see it. What is the problem here?
> If it helps, it was formatted for Windows 98.

I'm assuming you booted into Windows and are looking for the drive you
install Ubuntu on. Windows will not ba able to see it, because it
can't recognize the filesystems (ext3/reiserfs/xfs,/etc).

> 2. The system did not recognize her wireless network
> card at all, a Belkin 802.11g. I thought it might be
> unsupported, so I bought a new card today, a D-Link
> 802.11g. Still no luck. I even tried to reinstall
> Ubuntu and unplugged the built in ethernet port, but
> it couldn't find it on install and insisted that I
> plug into the port. Any ideas for how I can get this
> thing to recognize either one or both of these cards?
> Are there drivers out there for this sort of thing? If
> so, how do I install them?
> 
What  models are they? Have a look at:
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz




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