Wireless problems

[Guest]

hi everyone
ive just installed kubuntu on my laptop (HP EF5060), my problem is i cant get connected to my wireless network, i was looking for some solutions and i was asked to find the reference of my wireless card and download the driver that should be .inf but in http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...roduct=3462046 i could just find the .exe, it has to be installed with ndiswrapper.
im very new to linux so please gimme some easy peasy answers.
thnx in advance

[Detonate]

Re: Wireless problems

I usually only answer questions about wireless connections that contain "I have searched the forum for an answer and...." but i in your case I would suggest you start here, and if that doesn't work, then do the search.

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3099811.0

Welcome aboard! Hope my message doesn't come across in the wrong way, but just about every wireless question possible has already been addressed somewhere in this forum, and as a general rule, it is considered proper to search the forum for answers before posting a question that has already been answered many times.

[arochester]

Re: Wireless problems

1) You have said that your computer is an HP EF5060, but you lead to a site for an HP G5060EF Notebook PC. It might be a small difference, but it does make a difference to Googling for an answer.

2) If we take it that it is an HP G5060EF Notebook PC and you go to http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...462046&lang=en there are two different wireless drivers listed - Intel and Broadcom. Do you know which you have? If you don't then open a terminal and input:

lspci

This will list (ls) all of the pci devices. Somewhere it will say Network Controller xxxx. What does it say?

3) I think that present experience shows that Windows XP drivers are better than Windows Vista Drivers in ndiswrapper.