Sorry to delay so long with my reply.
Can you please explain how ndiswrapper may help me? I didn't keep windows on
the laptop at all. Would this make a difference with ndiswrapper?
I have reviewed these threads. The one sticky from wineman, I have reviewed
in the past prior to posting my bug.
ndiswrapper is a program that allows you to use windows drivers for a
wireless device in Linux. You don't need to have windows--you can
generally get the drivers off the manufacturer's website, or a driver
CD, or ask someone with the same device who is running windows. It's not
a perfect solution,
Try googling it. ;-) I found:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=630763
http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=664586
Broadly, you should look at upgrading the firmware (I don't know how, google
it again!), and/or using ndiswrapper.
Things like wireless often work better in
my chip set is:
02:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev
01)
my router is:
linksys WRTSL54GS Firmware Version : v2.00.1
the driver is:
hostap
I finally convinced my wife to upgrade to ubuntu.
The interesting thing is that before I upgraded this lap top
You may wish to give details of your wireless chipset and router. It's
possible, for example, that the driver for your chipset does not include
encryption support.
I've marked this as being related to network-manager.
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
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