Linksys Wireless Card Compatibility

[nwusr]

I installed Ubuntu a couple days ago on an old laptop that I recently repaired. The laptop does not have an internal wireless card, I am using a Linksys WPC54G (ver 1). I used ndiswrapper to import the driver and the hardware is recognized. However, when I try to configure the network, no wireless networks appear.

The ndiswrapper wiki (link below) says that some issues can be fixed by adding "acpi=noirq" to the kernel parameters. I have no idea how to do this though. Any help would be appreciated.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?title=Linksys_WPC54G

p.s. The wireless card does function, I tested it on another laptop that runs XP.

[wolfen69]

gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub
then add acpi=noirq on it's own line at the bottom of the list. Close and save.
Then do

sudo update-grub
reboot.

[nwusr]

Thanks for the response, Wolfen. Between your help and the installation doc in the link below, I finally got it to work.

Thanks!

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper