A couple of days ago, I had a family member drop his notebook PC at my place. It needed a quick runover, and some things updated, it was a "Scompaq" Armada M700, running XP. It's not one of those machines you'd expect to run XP smoothly, so I convinced him that they needed Ubuntu to run programs faster and more efficient. He said "OK, let's have a go at it. The only thing I really need, is a browser which runs flash,acrobat,mpg's, and the lot... And it should run wireless too"
alright..Challenge taken...Problem solved!
I ran down the local "PC pusher" and bought a cheap wireless pc-card "Zyxel G-162". First I tried it without installing any ndiswrapper and windoze drivers, but I used all night yesterday without success. Then I decided to try what they describe in the ndiswrapper howto and installed the windoze driver that came with the card. SUCCESS!! It connected right away, using 128Bit WEP encryption and all, Leds flashing, and 100% signal strength(yes I'm standing right next to the access point).
Now I'll grab a copy of automatix, the automatic installer for most multimedia programs, codecs and plugins for firefox.
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