Thanks Mike I am on it like flies on you know what :-)) Eric B On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 09:18 -0500, Rosberg, Michael wrote: > > 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 :-(( > > > > Not a Ubuntu user myself but have used Ndiswrapper to beat more that one > Wifi adapter into submission. I see that the Ubuntu community has put a > detailed howto for Wifi + Ndiswrapper + Ubuntu. Follow these > instructions and you should have a very good chance of success with > minimal assistance. > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper > > >From your description it sound like your next step will be to load the > driver that you have copied onto your laptop into the kernel. Looking at > the Ubuntu Wifi docs this would place you at step 3.4 Installing Windows > Driver > > MikeR. >