wifi impossible?

Hi there! I'm so sorry I didn't answered before. By mistake, I didn't subscribed myself to the answers feature in launchpad.

About your question. No eeePC model have working wifi on a Ubuntu clean install. To install NiceeePC you need to follow some commands (listed on the front page). On of those is wget. Wget download things from internet - that means you NEED internet connection. By default, on a clean install, the eeePC with Ubuntu do not have a functional wireless driver - you have no internet access thought wifi, NiceeePC fix that and other things. So, to download NiceeePC, and the driver, and a lot of stuff NiceeePC needs and downloads automatically, you need internet access, that means, wired connection.
You can install NiceeePC without internet access, but NiceeePC will not be able to download all the needed data get your eeePC to work.

Sorry abour my English. I hope everything is clear.

Cheers.

Thanks for this really nice script! One thing, is that wifi was not able to connect to my WAP or WAP2 router. Finally, I found that installing the knetworkmanager on top of Ubuntu 8.04.1 + niceeepc made it. The gnome networkmanager tried to connect to another wlan though showing to connect the desired target wlan ...
Previously, I thought the problem was with the madwifi driver you selected in your script, which is not the case for me.

You can also try to use wicd network manager.
I found working wicd manager inside lxde repository (no need for xlde)
Add this to your list of repositories for Hardy
apt http://ppa.launchpad.net/lxde/ubuntu hardy main

wicd is fine network manager, it connect to a network only if you want
,and can also bein used to connect automatically but you are not forced
to it, like with network-manager. (i don1t use kde so didn`t try knetworkmanager) wicd works fine for me