Wireless net book won't work

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi!

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I upgraded my Wifes dell netbook to Ubuntu 10.4 LTS couldn't get ubuntu
> to open, gave up on it and reinstalled using a CD.  With 9.4  a little
> anteni icon came up and I clicked on it found the wireless connection My
> desktop is using and the wireless connection was made. I never have had
> to do anything to get the connection so I have no idea what to do to
> create one.  Been looking for some help on line. Can someone help or
> give me a link to some help.  Thanks  Doug
>

You might want to specify what model of "dell netbook" it is... Or, in
particular, what WiFi chipset it uses. My EeePC 900 has a chipset that
required me to install NDISWRAPPERS (look for ndisgtk - sudo apt-get
install ndisgtk - which will install it all for you) and the
manufactor's Windows XP drivers (get it on the driver CD or on Dell's
web support downloads site for your machine) for it to work in Ubuntu
10.04 ...

Gilles

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