daltonlaffs
August 20th, 2008, 03:03 PM
Hello forum peoples,
I just recently got a customized HP Pavillion a6500z desktop computer, which arrived at my house yesterday. I quickly put Windoze on a smaller partition and installed Ubuntu (my OS of choice), to see that my wireless was actually working out-of-the-box! Weee!
...But of course NOTHING I do is that easy. About 40 minutes later, the Internet stopped working -- the package I was downloading with apt-get stopped counting upwards, and Firefox gets stuck on "Looking up google.com...". I had to restart the computer to be able to reconnect -- nothing else I could do would fix the problem.
The wireless card is a PCI card that is identified by its driver as a Ralink RT73 (aka 2573), which connects to an external antenna through what looks kind of like a cable input, but smaller. I've tried using ndiswrapper to use the Windoze driver, but it had absolutely no effect (wlan0 actually disappeared from the network manager), presumably because it's a Vista-oriented driver.
Also, I took a speed test with this generic Linux driver and the speed averages 1000kb/s -- in Windoze, I can top 4000.
I could live with the slower speed if it would just stop breaking the connection so randomly! Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, because I *really* don't want to have to buy a different wireless card.
I just recently got a customized HP Pavillion a6500z desktop computer, which arrived at my house yesterday. I quickly put Windoze on a smaller partition and installed Ubuntu (my OS of choice), to see that my wireless was actually working out-of-the-box! Weee!
...But of course NOTHING I do is that easy. About 40 minutes later, the Internet stopped working -- the package I was downloading with apt-get stopped counting upwards, and Firefox gets stuck on "Looking up google.com...". I had to restart the computer to be able to reconnect -- nothing else I could do would fix the problem.
The wireless card is a PCI card that is identified by its driver as a Ralink RT73 (aka 2573), which connects to an external antenna through what looks kind of like a cable input, but smaller. I've tried using ndiswrapper to use the Windoze driver, but it had absolutely no effect (wlan0 actually disappeared from the network manager), presumably because it's a Vista-oriented driver.
Also, I took a speed test with this generic Linux driver and the speed averages 1000kb/s -- in Windoze, I can top 4000.
I could live with the slower speed if it would just stop breaking the connection so randomly! Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, because I *really* don't want to have to buy a different wireless card.