[Cialug] Install of Ubuntu 11.04

[David Bierce]

In Ubuntu the program is called, "Additional Drivers" but it's an wrapper to Jockey, if you've used it.

It will let you grab any propriety drivers that are an option.  That said you might still have to go through this silly process for some wireless cards (As I've had to do for a few lappys with broadcom)  

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx might help if this is the case.


On Jul 26, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I installed the above version of Ubuntu on my Acer laptop.  It did not automatically configure a wireless connection for me and when I attempt to configure  a connection to my home network I am unable to save the configuration.  I must be skipping something in the setup because the save button is always grayed out and not available. 
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> I entered my wireless network SSID and BSSID and also tried to enter a route to see if that was what was missing but nothing I have entered up to this point has allowed the save button to be available so that the profile can be saved.  I also entered the WEP key but that did not help either.
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> Ideas?
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> It is possible that your wifi card needs a non-open source driver. If possible, what I would suggest is connecting temporarily using ethernet and install any updates, then run the "hardware drivers" program. I'm not running Unity at the moment so am going from memory but if you type in the search box "drivers" you should see it pop open.
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