what plagues Linux!
I’ve recently installed Ubuntu Fiesty Faun on my girlfriends laptop (Dell inspiron 1000). Things went ok during the install but afterwards i couldn’t get online. I plugged it in from my router and bingo things went as planned, but when i put in the wireless card there was nothing. So i decided to install ndiswrapper to get the wireless card working and nothing happened! This is pissing me off because i know in about five hours its gonna be pissing her off!
So what to do now? I’ve emailed my local lug group and they pointed me to various sites and recommended things that are not out of reach but time consuming. I’m getting frustrated with certain linux problems such as hardware support and drivers. I had a similar issue with my own computer with a Sound Blaster Audigy card that was almost brand new! I acknowlege that Creative isn’t really giving out new drivers for their sound cards and Alsa does a good job, but its a pain in the ass!
So if anyone out there wants to comment and step me, and the rest of the world, through installing a dell wireless 1350 card in a Ubuntu 7.04, i would be happy. I should mention that i’ve been using linux for a few years but some things are just unbearable, and this is one of them.
Jonathan
