I recently inherited an old laptop and decided to load Kubuntu on it. It seemed to be working fairly well, so I tried to get wireless networking going. Since it didn't have built-in capacity, I added a PC card from Linksys (WPC300N V1). I added ndiswrapper to get the driver. At first it seemed like I was close, because I saw the wireless icon on the taskbar, and when I clicked on it, it showed the SSID of my network. But I couldn't get it to connect.
I'm not sure what happened next, but the icon doesn't show up on the taskbar anymore, with or without the card being inserted. Not only that, but the lights on the card no longer light up. When I go to the network settings, it doesn't show the wireless adapter anymore. Do you think the card is fried?
But what's worse is that somehow I've bolluxed up the package manager. Whenever I try to go into one of the add/remove options, it claims that there's a problem. I hit the "try to fix" button, but then it comes back with the crash manager (signal 6 Sigabrt). I'm worried I'll have to reinstall Kubuntu. Any ideas? Thanks!
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I'm not sure what happened next, but the icon doesn't show up on the taskbar anymore, with or without the card being inserted. Not only that, but the lights on the card no longer light up. When I go to the network settings, it doesn't show the wireless adapter anymore. Do you think the card is fried?
But what's worse is that somehow I've bolluxed up the package manager. Whenever I try to go into one of the add/remove options, it claims that there's a problem. I hit the "try to fix" button, but then it comes back with the crash manager (signal 6 Sigabrt). I'm worried I'll have to reinstall Kubuntu. Any ideas? Thanks!
ew
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