Installing a new wireless network card

[Erik Bågfors]

The Madwifi drivers is in the linux-restricted-modules package and
should already be installed I guess. If not you can simply apt-get
install it and the computer should find your card.

It was extremly simple on my computer running warty.

/Erik


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:50:25 +0000, Eamonn Sullivan
<eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all. I'm about to tempt fate again by installed a new Wifi card on
> my Warty PC. At the moment, I'm using the motherboard ethernet to a
> wireless 802.11b bridge to connect to a Netgear 802.11b/g router. That
> arrangement sidesteps the whole issue or hardware recognition, but it
> makes it difficult to manage if I need to change any settings (like
> the WEP key for example), since the PC has no idea it is on a wireless
> network. A new Netgear WG311 PCI adapter has just arrived from Amazon.
> Googling indicates I'll either need to use ndiswrapper or the MADwifi
> or acx100 drivers (depending on the flavor). None of this, I'm
> assuming, has been installed already. Is there a good step-by-step
> guide for doing this on Ubuntu/Debian? I've found a few for Fedora and
> Suse. Does anyone use this card?
> 
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