New Problem.

[Chichi]

Okay my laptop has multiboot Vista and Ubuntu 8.04...Only problem is can only get wireless to work on Vista, and if I want to use internet on Ubuntu, I have to use a wire. Everyone's saying I have to download...A...Wireless driver or something like that (I'd like to point out that I am a n00b). And yeah, I don't have a clue how to do that.

Oh and my laptop is an Acer Aspire 4315.



Helpz?

Well it depends upon the model of your wireless adaptor and popularity of the driver software it uses.

Is the adaptor built-in to the computer, or are you using a separate adaptor, and by adaptor I mean wireless card, dongle.. etc etc ?

Ubuntu may not support the wireless card that you use, and you might have to resort to a program called Ndiswrapper, which allows you to use windows drivers for your wireless card on Gnu/Linux.

I myself had the same problem, and it was hella difficult to get to work. I did however get it to work in the end though, with a lot of modifying and using the command line terminal a lot. Even after I had it working, some features were lacking, like certain encryption settings

So if you're new to Gnu/Linux and haven't used the command line and don't know how to make modifications to certain code, it's probably going to be very hard. But, you might find a guide that will guide you through the entire process, and end up being successful.

I have seen quite a few of these how-tos on ubuntu forums. So try typing in the make of your card, following with a few terms like "wireless", "ubuntu" , "linux" etc and see what comes up. I'm sure something will come up.

If you're still having problems, then post the model of your card.

[Prometheum]

Tell us the card (you can find out with the program 'lspci').

Or better yet, find the card, google the card, and find the driver for it.