On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 12:47:09PM +0000, Chris & Barry Chater wrote:
I have just installed ubuntu 6.10 on a 5 year old Packard Bell Laptop and would like to connect to my Netgear router via wireless or RJ45/Usb connector. Not being to technical minded i don't want to get into source codes etc at the moment.So i would like a wireless pci card that works out of the box, or a usb wireless adapter that does the same. Failing this i could plug a usb/Rj45 connector and use a long lan cable. Have
Hi,
Does the laptop not have an ethernet socket already? if not does it have a pcmcia cardbus slot? if so you could just get a pcmcia ethernet card and run a cable to your computer. If you want to go wireless then I /think/ that atheros based cards are supported out of the box with ubuntu, and you can get a pcmcia cardbus (make sure your laptop can support cardbus, i think all laptops post-2000 can, but it's worth making sure) card with an atheros chipset from here http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-pcmcia-5-wcb101ag.htm failing that they do a "normal" pcmcia prism 2.5 but it costs nearly 50 quid and only supports 802.11b.
Also, are you sure that the laptop has a mini-pci slot that supports wireless? (you said pci, but i'm not aware of any laptop that has ever had a full size pci slot, unless it was specialised equipment) 5 year old machines didn't always have antennae available even if they had mini-pci slots in the first place and I'm not sure if Intel wireless cards are even supported on old chipsets although they are quite well supported in Ubuntu.
Thanks Adam