Dear all,
I’m trying to install the wifi card on my VAIO laptop and although there are many post about issues about wifi card in (k)ubuntu, it just seems that it’s bit and pieces and unfortunately I can’t work how to make it work...and it is driving absolutely nuts!
In a previous install, I had managed to setup the wifi for the same laptop but I had to a reinstall (hard drive died) and didn’t have a backup (I know it’s stupid).
Last time I was using ubuntu and this time I went for Kubuntu but I believe it shouldn’t make much difference for the wifi setup, right? When I set it up the first time it was after days and days of trials, installations of packages, removals of packages, changing config files, etc..., and to be honest it was just down to luck that I finally succeeded making it work. I didn’t wrote down the steps I took and as I’ve done it once more about 8 months ago now I can’t remember how to do it. I’ve spent hours trying to install it this time and I think I need to call on the help of the community.
It would be great if someone could help with a step by step procedure. I’m not new to linux/kubuntu but I mostly rely on synaptics if you know what I mean, I rarely work directly on configuration files...although I do from time to time. So when you say activate this or remove that, it would be great if you write down the command line.
I to tried to use ndiswrapper, ath5k, ath9k but it’s none is working so I might have made a bit of a mess with drivers and config files... I feel there is just one little thing that is wrong with my setup (a line of code somewhere, or the deactivation of something) but I can’t narrow it down.
I will paste some details about my system that will probably be useful in the next post.
Thanks a lot.
Chris
I’m trying to install the wifi card on my VAIO laptop and although there are many post about issues about wifi card in (k)ubuntu, it just seems that it’s bit and pieces and unfortunately I can’t work how to make it work...and it is driving absolutely nuts!
In a previous install, I had managed to setup the wifi for the same laptop but I had to a reinstall (hard drive died) and didn’t have a backup (I know it’s stupid).
Last time I was using ubuntu and this time I went for Kubuntu but I believe it shouldn’t make much difference for the wifi setup, right? When I set it up the first time it was after days and days of trials, installations of packages, removals of packages, changing config files, etc..., and to be honest it was just down to luck that I finally succeeded making it work. I didn’t wrote down the steps I took and as I’ve done it once more about 8 months ago now I can’t remember how to do it. I’ve spent hours trying to install it this time and I think I need to call on the help of the community.
It would be great if someone could help with a step by step procedure. I’m not new to linux/kubuntu but I mostly rely on synaptics if you know what I mean, I rarely work directly on configuration files...although I do from time to time. So when you say activate this or remove that, it would be great if you write down the command line.
I to tried to use ndiswrapper, ath5k, ath9k but it’s none is working so I might have made a bit of a mess with drivers and config files... I feel there is just one little thing that is wrong with my setup (a line of code somewhere, or the deactivation of something) but I can’t narrow it down.
I will paste some details about my system that will probably be useful in the next post.
Thanks a lot.
Chris
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