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If you are at this stage and still Ubuntu des not see your wireless USB it is time to either try another driver, or look for alternative solutions. This will allow you to select a Network, and tweak your wireless settings. Voila, you should see an icon appear next to your volume control which is your Network Manager. I think it will probably be a case of ‘if at first you don’t succeed’ I chose Vista driver as this was most recent but with one adapter this didn’t work. Note: Normally these will be in a config forlder or an inf folder and will probably be oranised by Windows Operating System.

Insert your cd which came with your wireless device.

Go to System > Administration > Windows Wireless devices (This is the new program you’ve just installed ndiskgt thanks to Sam Pohlenz).

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You should now be able to tick these items and save the Package Manager, which will then install the three programs.Again search for ndiswrapper-utils, ndiswrapper-common and ndisgtk.Now in Synaptic Package Manager click on “Source” (This means the Ubuntu Source CD I think!?).In administration ‘Manage Sources’ and add your cd/dvd You will now need to add the CD to your ‘Souces’.If nothing is found then Insert your Ubuntu CD.Search there for: ndiswrapper-utils, ndiswrapper-common and ndisgtk.Go to: System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager.One is a program which I think controls and ‘helps’ wireless networking run and the second is a graphical user interface which converses with the first program without the user having to use the command line. You will need to get a few programs running to get your adater working. It might not work for everybody but could be a good place to start before you get your handy dirty in the Terminal window.

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Of course everything I tried threw errors and exceptions and to this day I have no idea of how to login as ‘root’.īut having looked a little further I found out the solution was fairly simple, so I thought I would write a post on it in the hope it will save somebody a lot of time.

In a flustered state I managed to get our other computer online and tried to look up how to get ubuntu to work with a wireless usb and found a wealth of articles, and forum posts, most of which seemed to involve going to the command line and writing an essay in code.

Unfortunately Ubuntu simply did not see my wireless adapter, and there appeared to be no way of actually installing it. My wife and I both have a deep seated hate of wires and that combined with a quirky house means that wireless is the only way to go for us. It is just fabulous the way that Ubuntu automatically detects all hardware and everything just works automatically – that is – everything except my wireless USB and thus my connection to the internet.

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– Your windows drivers/hardware drivers cd Well I have to say that once I got the installation complete I was most pleased with myself, and very happy with my zippy new computer. Since the majority of use of this home computer will be browser based (and since soon I believe a great deal of applications will be browser based) I figured that there was nothing to stop me giving it a go. Belkin and Dynamode wireless adaptersīackground: Since I can neither afford the luxury of an Apple OS or stand any longer the bloated and slow Windows I thought it was about time to try out Linux on a computer at home. Ephemera Problem: Wireless USB adapter doesn’t work on Ubuntu.