Linux Netbook is wireless-less.

Linux Netbook is wireless-less. - Songs of innocence and of experience

Douglas Spencer

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Linux Netbook is wireless-less.	[Jul. 20th, 2010\|10:34 pm] Douglas Spencer
My laptop is large, and heavy, and expensive. I'm about to go away on holiday. So this week I bought a small, light, inexpensive machine -- a Samsung N150. I decided (like you do) that it should dual-boot the shipped OS (Windows 7) and Linux. Once I'd got past the stupidity of Samsung shipping the unit with four primary partitions on the hard disk (re-do the last partition as a logical drive in an extended partition) and the entirely reasonable fact that it didn't have a CD (using the Universal USB installer from pendrivelinux.com), I've got Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit Linux installed and working just fine. Except that there's no wireless networking under Linux. With the generic 2.6.32-23.37 kernel's standard module "r8192_pci" it recognises the device, but I can't connect to the access point. With ndiswrapper and the 32- or 64-bit XP drivers, it doesn't even recognise the device. So it looks like it's either wired networking on Linux, or back to Windows 7 for me -- unless I can google up a fix that actually works, or they fix the native driver in a subsequent kernel. Harumph.
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asphodeline
2010-07-22 08:51 pm (UTC)

Sorry, just seen this. Message for you:

If the wireless card is a Broadcom unit NDIS Wrapper won't work. Proprietary drivers are available from the Ubuntu site but you will need a wired link to access them of course.

If you need some help, tell me and I'll give you our phone number. We have Netbooks and wireless networking - I'm using it right now!!

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dougs
2010-07-22 09:18 pm (UTC)

It's a relatively recent Realtek, not Broadcom.

I now discover [link] that I can get updated drivers from Realtek by email -- I might try that on Monday.

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asphodeline
2010-07-22 09:30 pm (UTC)

Ok, is worth a try. Get in touch if still having trouble. John spent ages trying to get our netbooks to work for us but he learned a lot in the process!!

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