[LUGSB] About Ubuntu

[John Zabroski]

My 9600 GT magically started working with Ubuntu the other day...

Before that I had serious video card/driver incompatibility issues that often caused the screen to draw itself for non-equilateral times...like i had 4 windows.

--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Benjamin Kudria <ben at kudria.net> wrote:

> From: Benjamin Kudria <ben at kudria.net>
> Subject: Re: [LUGSB] About Ubuntu
> To: "Linux Users Group at Stony Brook" <lugsb at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 9:51 PM
> 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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