Unbuntu Linux and wireless card

[bully]

I have loaded Unbuntu onto my dell and got rid of windows.

All well and good but i cant get my Netgear WG311 PCI wireless card up and running.

Have looked over the net and it does say stuff and says about drivers etc, it goes on about tarballs and doing command line stuff to install them etc.

I have not got much of a clue about Linux/Unix, help please.

Bloody computers.

 

[Adams_16v]

i couldnt get my wifi card working on my laptop with it either!

 

[Daz]

I ended up replacing mine in my laptop - ndiswrapper didn't do a lot of stuff for me, and I wanted Avahi to work..

Get a nice supported card, and yer laughing

 

[ViolentJ]

http://www.jimbo7.com/wiki/index.php?title=WG311v3_LINUX_WIKI

Also, in case you did not know about it... http://www.ubuntuforums.org

and

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessTroubleShootingGuide

and

http://ebooksbay.org/files/Wiley.Ubuntu.Linux.Bible.Jan.2007.zip

Edit: And it's Ubuntu, not Unbuntu

 

[KDF]

Ive never had a problem with all the wireless cards ive come across.. always get them working, some are just more of a pain than others. If you get a supported one as Daz said then you wouldnt need to do anything ..

Blame the manufacturors for not releasing proper drivers.