Re: Help needed - Ubuntu

[Tim Carmean <tecarmea@xxxxxxx>]

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S. Gowtham wrote:
| 03 Dec 2004
|
| Hi,
|
| I seem to have done something stupid. Ubuntu is not recognizing the sound
| card and wireless network cards at all, amongst few other things. Looks
| like I did not include these modules during installation.
|
| My computer is a Dell Inspirom 600m laptop, with WinXP being the other
| operating system.. I ran 'lspci' and and have pasted the output below.
|
| sgowtham@sreenidhi:~ $ lspci
| 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller
| (rev 03)
| 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller
| (rev 03)
| 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #1
(rev 01)
| 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #2
(rev 01)
| 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #3
(rev 01)
| 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB2 EHCI
| Controller (rev 01)
| 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 81)
| 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller
| (rev 01)
| 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage
| Controller (rev 01)
| 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97
| Audio Controller (rev 01)
| 0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev
| 01)
| 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250
| Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 02)
| 0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M
| Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01)
| 0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus
| Controller (rev 20)
| 0000:02:01.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus
| Controller (rev 20)
| 0000:02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g
| (rev 03)
| sgowtham@sreenidhi:~ $
|
|
| I have decided to 'ditch' Windows forever from my laptop and will do
| another clean installation of Ubuntu again. If my mistake is too dumb to
| be explained over an email, I can sit with you and go over the process.
|
| Thanks in advance for you time.
|
| Help me ditch Windows...
| -Gowtham
|
| * * * *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
|
| http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~sgowtham
|
Ok first we'll get wireless working since that is pretty simple.
Step 1: Download and extract the following file:

http://www.silfreed.net/download/hpzt3000cto/SP23107A.tar.gz

Step 2: Open up Synaptic (Computer -> System Configuration -> Synaptic
Package Manager)

Step 3: search for and install the ndiswrapper-utils package

Step 4: Open a terminal (Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal) and
Navigate to the SP23107A folder

Step 5: sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf (this will ask for your
password). this may or may not produce any output (its been awhile since
i've done this)

Step 6: sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

Step 7: dmesg | grep wlan0 you should see some relevant output there
with some ndiswrapper stuff in there too. that will tell you if all the
stuff you just did actually worked.

Step 8: sudo echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules (this will make sure the
driver is loaded every time you reboot)

Step 9: Open up the Networking control panel (Computer -> System
Configuration -> Networking) and add the wireless adapter (probably
named wlan0) if necessary, or change the settings of the adapter by
looking under the properties.

As for the sound card if you could reply back with the output of the
lsmod command it would help figure that problem out. I have the exact
same sound card in my ASUS S5Ne laptop and Ubuntu detected it out of the
box. Maybe your card is simply muted. I'd just like to know what drivers
ubuntu loaded for you.

Tim
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