On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Vishal Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Mir Nazim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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)...
I agree to most of what you said but once you will upgrade the distro. You have to the dance again to get things working. PS: I also managed to get things working. We can manage manage to get things working, does not necessarily translate to "we want to do it this way". I am a web application developer and it is there where I want to spend my time rather than spending hours and days trying to get a brain dead piece of hardware working. I think PCMCIA card will be worth the cost(as it saves lots of head aches). That's why I asked community for the help in buying the best possible card > > HTH > > -- > "Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at its end madness and chaos > lie." > > -- > > > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- -- ALLAH HAFIZ ------------------------------------------- Mir Nazim ------------------------------------------- mobile: +91-9906478306 ------------------------------------------- website: http://www.xensoftlabs.com blog: http://mirnazim.wordpress.com ------------------------------------------- Yahoo, Gmail/GTalk, Skype, AOL : mirnazim -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
