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Muzer
18 Mar 2007, 08:22
I think the problem is lack of driver for a BT Voyager 1060 PCI wireless card, as in device manager it detects the name but has no idea what it is.
So yeah, does anyone know where to find drivers for this? And how would I put them in a location that Linux recognises? I've tried a quick google (on the first subject, I'll cross the other bridge when I get there) and found other people asking the same thing with no answer, and annoyingly complicated driver databases that once I'm done working out how they work find out there's no driver. Help???
EDIT: I don't think it is the drivers, what have I done wrong? I went into networking, double, clicked on the wireless card, typed in all the details correctly, selected the checkbox, and it still doesn't work.
EDIT2: this is ubuntu, BTW.
EDIT3: I've tried disabling security but it still doesn't work I enabled it again afterwards.
EDIT4: Turns out I forgot to set the DNS, but it STILL WON'T WORK!!!
Does Ubuntu have some sort of built in program control device?

MrBunsy
18 Mar 2007, 13:19
Not exactly solving your problem, but I know someone else who had terrible trouble with wireless cards in linux, they recently installed the latest version of openSUSE (10.2) and it set it all up straight away without any problems. I've found SUSE was more fiddly with mounting hard discs and CD drives though.
I think his was USB though, possibly one of the BT ones, I can't remember.
Otherwise, I'm afraid I can't help with Ubuntu, I hated it :p

evilworm2
18 Mar 2007, 14:32
Try
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=194009
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=514413
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=25683
And there's no need to install SuSE. It sucks.

Muzer
18 Mar 2007, 16:00
I'll try that as soon as I get home (I'm at my grandmas on a mac OS 10 with a horrible kb). Thanks!

Plasma
18 Mar 2007, 17:43
Finally got linux,
I'm sorry for your loss.

evilworm2
18 Mar 2007, 17:47
I'm sorry for your loss.
Omg. Spam.

Muzer
18 Mar 2007, 18:38
I'm sorry for your loss.
I'm not 100% sure whether you mean "The loss of not having had Linux for so long" or "The loss of ditching Windows and getting Linux.". If it's the former, then you must think about the future, not the past (That's why I hate history lessons (Hey! That's an idea We should have lessons where we try to predict what the future will hold!)). f it's the latter, don't worry, I have a dual boot with my slow, bloated etc. copy of XP.

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