Cannot Enable Wifi card+Dvd incompatibility(??)

[HaPo]

1° Prblm)
Aint' activate my pci wireless card,
I tryed to install various utilityes like Knetwork manager but wen I try to create a new lan the program saves the various information about it but still not activate the card...

model is: U.S.Robotics wireless MaXg Pci Adpter type:USR805417

hapo@h4p0:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSIDff/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

ppp0 no wireless extensions.


note: I would to create a ad-hoc network so I can share the internet connection between my laptop (a stupid ACER travelmate with an intel pro set wireless card).

2°prblm)
Whenever I have some difficult to install kubuntu on it because the dvd drive has some well-know compatibility problem and anytime abort the installation in the perfect middle of it...
I'm a bit desperate...if someone would be so sweet to help me with some exlication of the causes of une of both problems I have...would be fantastic

Tnk's a lot gys...That's an ideal community

[OU812]

Re: Cannot Enable Wifi card+Dvd incompatibility(??)

For problem number 2: Is your firmware up-to-date?

john

[James1]

Re: Cannot Enable Wifi card+Dvd incompatibility(??)

As for the wifi card. It looks like (After a quick search around) that the card uses Broadcom 4318 chip set. If I am right then you need to use ndiswrapper. The way I did it (On my Acer laptop which uses the Broadcom 4318 card), has been listed here.

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...64.0;topicseen