Hi Brad iwconfig shows no devices, I tried that already but I am assuming that I should put lspci into the terminal and see what it bring up. I checked and ndiswrapper is installed buy default it seems (Ubuntu 704 distro on the laptop ) I have WEP and a single passphrase with a hex key for encryption. I have loaded the windows driver to the laptop but am not sure what the next steps are :-(( So I have been checking the forums too, this is a bit over my head but I will look into it tonight and get back to you.. Eric B Gotta keep exercising the old brain box On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 21:45 -0500, hudson [ at ] pythian [ dot ] com wrote: > Eric; > > What exact model is it? Is it integrated? If you run lspci do you see the > device in the list? If you run iwconfig does it show any wireless > devices? > > There is a gnome/kde frontend for network-manager in ubuntu. Check > synaptic for the package, but it should be installed by default. As long > as your card is available and you are using a simple security like WEP > with a single passphrase it should find and allow you to connect to your > wireless. I use a 4 key setup which network-manager does not like, I > have to configure it in /etc/network/interfaces by hand. > > If the card is not directly supported by a linux driver then you may have > success using ndiswrapper. ndiswrapper is a utility that allows you to > load the Windows driver for the card. There is a lot of good info on > doing this in the Ubuntu forums. > > Good luck. > > Brad > > > > > Can any one help with this please ? > > > > I have an Inspiron 8100 from dell and the Trendnet USB WIFI device works > > fine in XP Pro but I want to get it working in Ubuntu. > > > > Thanks for your patience folks > > > > Eric B > > > > PS: > > Please note new email address > > > > eric.brackenbury at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux mailing list > > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > > > >