ok there ae two ways of doing this 1) Enable Wireless support on the ubuntu machine, details are here
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices Click on PCI and search for Asus, you will see your card listed eventually as needing the b43 drivers click on this and get to here http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 Now go down and see the install faq and read about the firmware cutters for ubuntu. Not used this kit so all I can suggest is you follow the instructions, they look adequate. You obviously have to do much of this install at the command line (Terminal). If you've not done this before, then I can give you more details of using the command line in general. Once you get this setup then ubuntu should connect to the internet via your friendly neighbours internet connection. At this point you don't actually need the switch as your ubuntu box should talk wirelessly to your PC over the same WiFi channels. 2) I generally avoid ICS so I can't really help with this option. You could verify that your Ubuntu box has an IP address by going to the command line and typing ifconfig. If you see something like this then it is configured ok [some...@ubuntubox ~]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:B6:BB:68 *inet addr:192.168.0.64* Bcast:192.168.80.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::217:31ff:feb6:bb68/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:912004 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:503467 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1191905250 (1136.6 Mb) TX bytes:159765844 (152.3 Mb) Interrupt:20 Base address:0xa000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:99423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:99423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:7157071 (6.8 Mb) TX bytes:7157071 (6.8 Mb) The key is that the inet address exists, if I vaguely remember correctly you might find a funny net mask of 255.255.255.255 but this is normal for a gateway such as this - in ICS your Vista box acts as router. I hope this helps feel free to get back when you next get stuck Cheers Rajiv -- rdhir ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rdhir's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13634 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61539 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
