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aslan72 | February 24, 2009 10:04 PM | in Linux

Does anyone know of a way to get a linksys 802.11G pcmcia card working in the latest version of Ubuntu?

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dukeboles | February 27, 2009 06:06 PM

I am not a Linux expert by any means but I will give this a try. Because Ubuntu is an Open Source project, the development community won't include any proprietary code in the Distro. Linksys (and many other) drivers are proprietary code. In order to move towards making Ubuntu easier for regular people to use they are moving away from the old method of using a package called ndiswrapper to recompile Windows drivers for these devices. The new method for many proprietary drivers is to use synaptic to load the package restricted-drivers. Once this is loaded you can choose the driver you want to activate. For more detailed instructions on which driver you need use this chart (http://snurl.com/crkla) to identify which chipset your device contains. With your device, Linksys used different chipsets in different versions. You will need to identify which version (1, 1.2, 2.0 etc..) you have. Some versions of that card work with the BCM43... driver included in restricted-drivers and some require the ndiswrapper method detailed here (http://snipurl.com/crkyw). Hopefully yours contains the broadcom chipset which is much easier. You should be able to identify the version on the outside of the card near the model number. Good Luck.

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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardwareSupportComponentsWirelessNetworkC...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper

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