If you glance at the previous post you will see that after a couple of weeks of trying, a friend helped me set up wireless in Xp. The next task was to do so in Ubuntu. I thought it would take a week or so of trying this and that, but then I remembered the tutorial at sub-par ubuntu, as the writer has a similar setup to my own.
I don’t seem to have the wireless indicator on my laptop (it may come on after I reboot) but otherwise it was pretty painless and the bottom line is that I’m writing this from Ubuntu.
The main difference in his method and others I’ve read is that it’s a lot SIMPLER (thank you) and he prefers fwcutter over the more common ndiswrapper method. The only possible drawback to his tutorial is that it is for an unencrypted, broadcasting network running DHCP.
But for the moment, I’m happy as a pig in flight.
Many thanks, sub-par.
[...] When I got back home from Christine’s lecture (I wish I could see more than an excerpt here and there of Heaven’s Gate, but I don’t think it’s on DVD)), I had some time on my hands while waiting for a return call, so I got a wireless internet connection going on my Ubuntu-powered computer. It had taken me two weeks with the aid of a friend to get it going on Windows, but I got lucky. If anyone’s interested in such geeky matters they can read about that here [permanent link here]. [...]
[...] but I got lucky. If anyone’s interested in such geeky matters they can read about that here [permanent link here]. Yes, that kind of [...]