And yet Stephanie is having no problems on her Mac. Until I returned home, where it seems to alternate between either dragging or not wanting to get an IP address at all. Luckily I had the madwifi dir and instructions still in the trash, so I make, make installed it, rebooted, and voila-all was right in the world. Last night I updated Ubuntu (which included a kernel bump from 2.6.24-19 to 2.6.24-21) and this morning at the CM Summit when I booted up my laptop to liveblog Evan Williams-no wireless. Sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get dist-upgrade So this morning I reinstalled Ubuntu from scratch, tried what I assumed to be the bare minimum necessary to get wireless to work, and it did!Īt the time of writing, 8.04 (Hardy Heron) was the latest version Of course I’d done a number of different things, and I wasn’t really sure which combination had produced the intended effect.
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Without finding the kind of shining bullet that would make everything dandy, I attempted a few different instructions for how to get wireless to work, most of them outside my normal apt-get comfort level, and eventually, almost surprisingly, wireless started working. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) This is important! It did determine that I needed some restricted (aka closed-source) Atheros drivers in order to try to get it to work, but apparently those drivers didn’t have support for this particular wireless chipset (AR242x):Ġ3:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. I was obviously disappointed to discover upon installing Ubuntu that it couldn’t see my wireless ethernet adapter. I’m not even sure why I had a choice between that or the more expensive Intel WiFi Link 5100/5300, but given that I only really needed 802.11b/g support, I went with the cheaper default. I ordered my X200 with the default wireless ethernet adapter, the ThinkPad 11b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Express Adapter III. Getting wireless to work in Ubuntu on a Lenovo ThinkPad X200
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