[Cialug] Wireless Kubuntu

David Champion dchampion at visionary.com
Mon Mar 19 12:43:40 CDT 2007


The Atheros driver is one of the better supported under linux - you 
should be able to use the native driver.

-dc

Todd Walton wrote:
> On 3/18/07, Lars Althof <lars at larch.dk> wrote:
>> Do you know what the wireless card in the laptop is?
> 
> It's actually a desktop.  It's a Belkin F5D7000, using an Atheros chipset.
> 
>> source drivers don't support the -g hardware very well, so you might be
>> connecting at 12mbps, which  (I think) forces other computers to use the
>> same speed.
> 
> That would be worth looking into.  I think I read something in the
> router's manual that indirectly implied that it could handle g at full
> g even with a b connected.
> 
>> switching to NDIS wrapper and the windows driver fixed it
>> for me. If you don't know which chipset is in your laptop run lspci and
>> look for wireless.
> 
> Oh please no, don't make me deal with ndiswrapper!
> 
>> You might also think about switch to Knetworkmanager, to me it seems
>> much simpler to use and more stable, plus it will handle WPA.
> 
> ACK.
> 
> -todd
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