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Ive just bought a new laptop. I specifically asked the guy at Dick Smith for one that had no hardware issues re: Linux, I asked him 3 times about the wireless (thats what I really wanted) and he said not a prob So as you can guess I spent the better part of last night and today trying to get wireless working on my ubuntu Its an Asus laptop with a broadcom wireless, I have been bashing my head against the desk following tutorials on ndiswrapper to no avail. Before I lose my rag with the guy at
Tricky Dickys, has anyone succeeded with said chipset?
Have I borked something?
If anybody wants to help at a Saturday workshop (as I probably won't make it) then you might want to download Linux 2.6.17-rc4 and have a look at the following URL: http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;h=28... (If that URL breaks the file is Documentation/networking/bcm43xx.txt in the kernel tree. In theory with Linux 2.6.17 (not 2.6.16 as the documentation says) you can use the Broadcom natively instead of using ndiswrapper. I have tested on one of my machines and it detects the card fine but I haven't downloaded the firmware yet. One thing to note is that the kernel doesn't have WPA support so if you use that you will need to download wpa_supplicant as well.
One final thing.. I cant get dvd's to play, I have mpegs playing fine, the dvd is mounted ok, and the files are readable just nothing will play them, not totem, not mplayer. Windows is having no troubles. So its not a hardware issue.
Just about no distribution plays DVDs by default due to issues around licensing for DVD. This is easy to overcome by installing a package from a different place than default. I'm not sure what this is on Ubuntu. There are comments at http://wlug.org.nz/UbuntuNotes but they seem out of data so perhaps an Ubuntu user could update? -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand