ubuntu with aironet 350 wireless card

selami · 09-18-2006, 10:06 AM

hi everybody,

I am very new to linux. my problem is dealing with the wireles card. I have aironet 350 wireless card and ubuntu 5.10 on my laptop. do i have to install the driver? can anybody help me in arranging the wireless settings? i also want to use my laptop at my university and my university has xsupplicant type of things. i do not know anything about it. please help me.

thanks

syg00 · 09-19-2006, 02:52 AM

The 350 works "out of the box" on Ubuntu. There were some issues with making sure all the needed services were active at the correct time. I had to play with the init scripts some to make the start automagic.

I'll check when I get home - if you are just starting out, I would suggest you get 6.06 (also known as Dapper). It's the current level of Ubuntu, and has better all-round support.
The 350 works fine on it.

selami · 09-19-2006, 12:08 PM

thanks syg00. i will install dapper. what about the xsupplicant or wpa supplicant security things? i will appreciate if anybody helps.

syg00 · 09-19-2006, 04:38 PM

Just to confirm, I had a look at my setup and Dapper is the definitely the better option. I don't have any mods in place for this to work, and it works fine.
Also the interface is named more sensibly (eth1) than it was under 5.10.

After hibernating (an old Toshi Satpro 4600) occasionally the wifi won't fire up again, but "sudo ifdown eth1" followed by "sudo ifup eth1" soon fixes it.

Others will have to advise on supplicant; never used it.

selami · 09-20-2006, 11:24 AM

Thanks syg00. I hope that somebody can help me in dealing with xsupplicant or wpa supplicant type of things. Anybody can help?

syg00 · 09-21-2006, 07:24 AM

Try searching on ubuntuforums.org or maybe the wiki.
Looks like Universe may have what you need.