[LUGSB] About Ubuntu

[Benjamin Kudria]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 01:06, Andrew Karnis <andrew.karnis at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently installed Ubuntu 8.04.01 on my HP Laptop, using a 15 gb
> partition, i'm completely new to linux and I don't know how to get it to
> recognize any of my devices such as wifi card. I have a intel wifi 5100AGN
> wifi card and don't know what applications, drivers and commands I need to
> get it working
>
> I've heard of something called ndiswrapper which can use windows drivers on
> ubuntu but I can't get this working
>
> Can someone please help?

Looking around, it looks like that is one of the newer cards that
doesn't have perfect support yet.  Before trying ndiswrapper, we
should try getting the native drivers working.  However, I'm not sure
which driver this card requires, since this model seems to sell is
several chipset configurations.

Can you please paste the output of the 'lspci' command?  To do this,
after logging in, hit Alt+F2, type 'gnome-terminal', hit enter, the
type, without quotes, 'lspci', and hit enter.  Take what it spits out
and paste it in your reply.

This should help identify the chipset, and then we might be able to help you.

Ben Kudria
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