General question and wireless specific question
I am a retired 'newbie' on Ubuntu and trying to learn basics, but, speciffically, I am trying to get the wireless card working. When I read about most Linux topics the level of the dialog is much beyond my understanding. For example, I do not know how to "compile". There are "terminal" commands to get things done, but no explanation is offered on how to do it. How do I implement, " sudo lsmod | grep ipw 2200" or whatever about the driver??? Let me add that my lunch is eaten regularly with wireless set-up on windows-based machines. It seems like a giant puzzle to get it working.
At this point I have installed what appears to be a working copy of U 7.0.4 on a second drive in the cd tray of a t23 ibm laptop. I was thrilled. It was easy. I used wubi. I found it by googling the question of how to install on a secondary drive using the cd slot. I didn't know what I was doing, but it sailed through fine. No wonder Gates is getting nervous. I am really impressed so far, but I pose ( my lack of knowledge) a serious challenge to some of the steps to fix things I've read so far.
My immediate goals:
1) get the wirless working;
2) use Ubuntu and see if it can meet a 'newbies' needs;
3)learn how to tinker with the program ( and how to avoid having to tinker)
Questions:
1) Can you direct me to a bottom-line introduction to the commands, procedures and requirements for solving the above questions??
2) Can you help to get the wireless working?
3)network manager is a part of 7.0.4 or has to be found and installed?
4) ndiswrapper-- is it what I need and how do I use it with my linksys wpc54gr card?
Thank you
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