a spot of bother, nvidia drivers and wireless

[sqlpython]

Re: a spot of bother, nvidia drivers and wireless

Wireless
Just use your Windows version of the WiFi Drivers with ndiswrapper.
The Win Wifi drivers should be on the driver disk that came with your machine's Win Install.
Download with Synaptic or apt-get the ndiswrapper package.
Then follow the how to.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...er/Ndiswrapper

[quevey]

Re: a spot of bother, nvidia drivers and wireless

cool thanks mate ill try that, but when i do sudo apt-get, doesnt it have to download somwthing? and im not connected, how does that work? or is it in the bundle of stuff that came with my kubuntu? sorry bout my noobness

[arochester]

Re: a spot of bother, nvidia drivers and wireless

Nvidia

I had 8.04. I first missed the point of Hardware Drivers Manager. I tried Albert Milone's script "Envy" - http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html and I tried installing from the Nvidia site, neither worked. I got so messed up with Nvidia...

I later caught on to Hardware Drivers Manager. I did a complete reinstall - 8.04.1 . The first thing I did was to tick the box, it installed the driver and I rebooted. Success!

Wireless

Your first post here at the very top identifies your wireless card as "Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 5100" I responded to this in "Wireless help" below (cross posting!!!)

Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 5100

Still looks like a work in progress. But look at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=879134&page=7 post#62

[quevey]

Re: a spot of bother, nvidia drivers and wireless

thanks heaps for your replies!!

arochester: yeah it says nvidia, and i have already checked the box, but it doesnt install any drivers. and it says not in use..... in the drivers section of kde, it says the vesa graphics driver is the standard one...

and sqlpython:

here are the results of the command:

WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-generic
description: Ethernet interface
product: Illegal Vendor ID
vendor: Illegal Vendor ID
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: ff
serial: xxxxxxx
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master vga_palette cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.2LK latency=255 maxlatency=255 mingnt=255 module=r8169 multicast=yes

[sqlpython]

Re: a spot of bother, nvidia drivers and wireless

Regarding Wireless
You first have to determine your wireless card and driver needed.
in a Konsole

lshw -C network

and post back..
For security reasons obliterate/change the MacAddresses
listed as
serial: xxxxxxx
Depending on the card you may have to run a ndiswrapper
Here is one example
http://www.kubuntu.org/doc/7.10/netw...nect-wifi.html

[arochester]

Re: a spot of bother, nvidia drivers and wireless

Does Nvidia appear in Kmenu>Stystem>Hardware Drivers Manager?

If it does then tick the box, wait a while for it to install the correct driver and reboot

[quevey]

Hi there, I am another complete muppet and am trying to get into kubuntu, because i dont like vista but im having some issues similar to regulataoath.
cant get wireless to work, and also cant get my video drivers sussed.

I have a hp dv51011ea with geforce 9600m gt,
i installed hardy heron release of kubuntu a couple of days ago.
i dont know squat about konsole use either Sad
which nvidia driver do i need, and how do i get my wireless up and running.

here are the results form lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Cantiga Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cantiga PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0649 (rev a1)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4237
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 2380
06:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 2382
06:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 2381
06:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 2383
06:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 2384

in vista it shows my netwrk adapters as:
Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 5100
Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)

any other info i need let me know, any help would be much appreciated! thanks.