[Cialug] Wireless Kubuntu

[Todd Walton]

On 3/18/07, Lars Althof <lars at larch.dk> wrote:
> Do you know what the wireless card in the laptop is?

It's actually a desktop.  It's a Belkin F5D7000, using an Atheros chipset.

> source drivers don't support the -g hardware very well, so you might be
> connecting at 12mbps, which  (I think) forces other computers to use the
> same speed.

That would be worth looking into.  I think I read something in the
router's manual that indirectly implied that it could handle g at full
g even with a b connected.

> switching to NDIS wrapper and the windows driver fixed it
> for me. If you don't know which chipset is in your laptop run lspci and
> look for wireless.

Oh please no, don't make me deal with ndiswrapper!

> You might also think about switch to Knetworkmanager, to me it seems
> much simpler to use and more stable, plus it will handle WPA.

ACK.

-todd