Saturday, January 31, 2009

Follow-up on the wireless network card

After some digging around the net, it seems that I can't use the drivers supplied with the card! These are 32-bit drivers, and I'm using a 64-bit distribution, so there's no way around it.

Searching through the manufacturer's site for a 64-bit version of the drivers, I couldn't find anything (not even for other devices!)...

I heard that Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) has support for more network cards, so I figured that upgrading might help. But it didn't seem to matter much - the network card is still non-operational.

So I guess I'll be doing a clean install of the 32-bit Ubuntu 8.10 distribution. Then at least I'd be able to use the supplied drivers.

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