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daedalus__
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Re: ubuntu :)

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wireless support is only tricky when it comes to getting drivers for your card but there are over 1000 wireless cards supported through ndiswrapper, in fact the windows drivers work better than the ones provided in the repositories on my dell 1390 (broadcom). its funny because a lot of people lose range when they use the native drivers but switching to windows drivers with ndiswrapper fixes the problem.

couple your windows drivers with wicd and it works very similarly to windows.

its a little weird to configure your card using the terminal though haha
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Re: ubuntu :)

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volomike wrote:I guess I don't understand what you mean by "ISP won't support Linux".
I called Charter for help when I couldn't get internet set up on my laptop that runs Ubuntu, and the man I was talking to said "I'm sorry but we don't support Linux operating systems." I know very little about this topic so I just took his word for it.
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oh he was probably just a csr idiot or something.

next time try the ubuntu forums or something man.

or here.
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Re: ubuntu :)

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Payton wrote:I called Charter for help when I couldn't get internet set up on my laptop that runs Ubuntu, and the man I was talking to said "I'm sorry but we don't support Linux operating systems." I know very little about this topic so I just took his word for it.
You took his word for it? Hahaha. No one takes the ISPs word for it. Every ISP on the planet that I know of will say, "We don't support anything but Windows and Mac." Heck, they likely won't even tell you how to get a very common DSL/Cable Modem Router connected to your DSL Modem or Cable Modem. You just have to play the game and grab a Windows PC or laptop, or Mac PC or laptop, get it working there, write the settings down, and then go type them into either your Linux PC or laptop, or into your DSL/Cable Modem Router.

And for that matter, no one actually reads the TOS of any ISPs either because if we did, we would never be able to use the Internet. I mean, if you want a good laugh some day, go read the Verizon DSL Terms of Service.
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