Hello, everyone. I used to use SuSE exclusively, and now wish to switch to Ubuntu. Dapper Drake just wowed me. Everything looks nice, works properly, and the attention to detail is amazing. I've got it installed on both of my two machines, and use it on one. On the other (the machine I'm currently on) my only access to the internet is through a Linksys WUSB54G wireless adapter. On SuSE, I have to use ndiswrapper and the Windows drivers for it.

Dapper Drake did something I've never seen a distro do before, it recognized my wireless adapter "out of the box." However, once I'd set the SSID and WEP key for my network (copied and pasted from the output of ifstatus on the SuSE partition, so I know there were no typos), I didn't get a connection. I drug the machine out to another room in my house, and used the wired connection normally used by another computer long enough to install all the software 1f40 I wanted and update everything, including installing ndiswrapper. I've installed the Windows drivers for my adapter using it, and it acknowledges its presence, but I don't know how to configure Ubuntu to use the connection. Does anyone have any suggestions or instructions?

Thank you,
Robert Bieber

If ubuntu detected it out of the box and it doesnt work , to use ndiswraper you will have to remove the driver ubuntu is trying to use. from a terminal run lsmod and look for the network card module. Once you get the module run
sudo modprobe -r modulename

Then after configuring ndiswrapper run

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

If that works then delete the driver ubuntu is using and add ndiswrapper to /etc/modules