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acer wireless won't turn on at boot

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hi have just installed ubuntu edgy and cannot get my wireless to work, I have an acer aspire 3610.have a wired internet connection but have no idea how to get the wireless working

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Chris Rowson (christopherrowson) said : 		#1

Hi there.

Unfortunately this particular laptop is more difficult than most to get working.

AFAIK there are no linux drivers available for the internal Broadcom wireless card so you're going to have to use ndiswrapper to get the windows drivers to run it. You'll also have to run a script to 'turn on' the card when the laptop boots.

I checked the Ubuntu forums and there's a pretty good thread here that should help you out.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2343324

Cheers

Chris

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Chris Rowson (christopherrowson) said : 		#2

Was that of any help to you?

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beef (beef-1) said : 		#3

have gone back to windows til the new version of ubuntu is out later this week, then will get my penguin at wotk to sort my laptop out. Cheers for the help

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Chris Rowson (christopherrowson) said : 		#4

This information is from PCWorld.com

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130923-page,1-c,linux/article.html

I was reading it and remembered your trouble ticket - you never know, it just might work ;-)

If you're running Ubuntu on a laptop and your Wi-Fi card is not detected or supported, try installing the Ndisgtk package (listed as such in Synaptic, but as 'Wireless Windows Drivers' in Add/Remove Applications). Then select the new System, Administration, Windows Wireless Drivers entry in Ubuntu's menu bar. The ensuing dialog box asks for the location of an INF file that represents the Windows driver for your wireless adapter. Have a driver disc? Find the INF file on there and see if Ndisgtk can get you up and running.

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