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Wireless Drivers Problem On Desktop

Asked by GeminiMoon

Have switched all my laptops and desktops to Ubuntu 10.04 with little problems. I have one desktop that I did a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 and everything seems to work except for the wireless card.

Typing lspci -v into the terminal window it shows that the Network Controller is a Texas Inst. ACX111 54mbps Wireless Interface. Under that it says Zyxel Comm. Corp. Device 340B 802.11. (It is a Mini PCI card with antenna if that makes any difference)

By typing another command into Terminal, sudo lshw -C network, it says it is unclaimed. Even though I have read that I can install and run NDISWrapper to make my wireless card work, I am at a total loss as how to do this. I do not know where to find the Windows driver nor do I understand how to use the NDISWrapper or ndisgtk to install the correct driver.

Hopefully someone can explain to me, in layman's terms, what I need to do to get this wireless card up and running properly.

I have searched all over for how to do this but am just not quite understanding how to sort it all out.

Thanks for any help!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network

Thanks

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GeminiMoon (geminimoon66) said : 		#2

Okay, switching things to my son who has this computer, his user name ASN-2010.
He is having another problem now, maybe you can help him on that too?

Thanks!

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Aaron Norris (asn-2010) said : 		#3

*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet controller
vendor: Intel Corp.
physicla id: 8
bus info: pci@0000:02:08.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:08:02:0d:d8:6e
size: 10 MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33 MHz
capabilities: pm bus master cap list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiton
config: autonegotition=on broadcast=yea driver=e100 driverversion=3.5.24-k2-NAPI duplex-half firmware=N/A latency=66 link=no maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 muliticast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
resources: irq:20 memory:40200000-40200fff ioport:1000(size=64)

*-network: 1 UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: ACK 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
Vendor: Texas Instrument
physical id: a
bus info: pci@0000:02:0a.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock:33MHz
capabilities: pm bus mast cap_list
config: latency=66
resources: memory:4010000-40101fff memory: 40000000-4001ffff

When I enter the command you listed above i get this. I am also having a new problem when booting. I get a black screen which reads:

error: unknown mode found
error: unknown command "terminal"

And when finaly booted i have no panel bars on my desktop. As i am not familiar with Ubuntu. There is not much i am able to do without them on. However, i have access to terminal. But that is all.
If you could help with both problems i would be much obliged.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/acx111

You need the sources and firmware, alternatively you can use the Windows driver with ndisgtk.

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Aaron Norris (asn-2010) said : 		#5

Okay. I am currently working from my laptop using windows. I am not quite sure what exactly it is i need to do.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#6

plug your computer via the ethernet adapter and go into terminal and download/install the ndisgtk wrapper. then follow the instructions in the link that actionparsnip gave you.

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