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Fun Stuff => CLIKC => Topic started by: Mnementh on 17 Aug 2006, 00:20
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does anyone out there better at google than I am know the horizontal sync frequency and vertical refresh rate of a Compaq Presario V5207NR Notebook?
(or why Ubuntu won't recognize it's built in wireless?)
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http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ ?
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They didn't help much. I was able to get the resolution thing straightened out this morning though.
sudo apt-get install 915resolution did the trick.
Now the wireless is the issue.
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Is this why your phone isn't working?
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Your wireless card is probably not offically supported by Ubuntu. In which case you will have to use a wrapper (in this case ndiswrapper) to load the windows drivers in ubuntu. Here is a good how to:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=31926&highlight=wireless
You will need the original windows drivers for the wireless card before you start. Also if you search the Ubuntu forums for "ndiswrapper wireless" you should find a bunch of topics that may help you.
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That was sort of the problem, and still not it. The version of ndiswrapper provided through Synaptic wasn't current enough, so I had to download the source and build it myself.
That got the driver working and the wireless card recognized, but I can't get it to connect.
Fucking broadcom chips.
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Do you get any errors, or does it just not connect? If you havn't already tried, try configuring the wireless card manually using 'ifconfig'. I don't remember any of the arguments you have to use off hand, but you should be able to search the Ubuntu forums/google and find what you need quickly.
Broadcom chips can be very evil at times.
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It is working now. I reinstalled with the same driver from a different source and it is connecting just fine.
Weird.