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As much as I’d like to think otherwise, by my own estimate I’m still learning the ins and outs of linux based systems. Several months ago I struggled for days with Fedora Core 2 and ndiswrapper or the native intel 2100 for my dell 8600 without any luck what-so-ever. Extremely frustrating. I finally decided that it wasn’t worth spending any more time on and vowed to come back to it later on after allowing myself some space.

time passes.

A new linux distribution Ubuntu comes out and I find out that it actually has some built in attempts to discover and set up my wireless card. The system actually tried to load the driver and assign an irq, but dmesg indicated there was a conflict on irq 7. Surfing the ubuntu forums revealed one suggestion to add “acpi=noirq” to the kernel command line in grub’s configuration. BOOM! The problems before disappear, and I start fiddling some more with wireless settings. I turned off all the security on my access point just to see if I could get things going. … and I’ll be dammed if it started working!

I’m running without WEP at the moment, but I’m making this post using the connection. I can already tell to that in additionI should look into its power management settings because the battery is already draining fast (81%) and I’ve only been puttering around *wireless* for a short time. ….