wireless

[montana68]

Hello all
I wanted to ask if I have a working wireless connection and I try to test a wireless usb one on that machine but I turn off the one that works and I try to use the usb wireless connector will it affect my wireless that is working. The reason I want to test this usb on a my laptop is that on my desktop I get the answer.Wireless is disconnected and when I click on the icon that shows if you have available connections in the area I don't get anything. I don't want to test and see if it will work in my laptop which also has Ubuntu 10.04 if it is going to cause a problem. I'm new to Ubuntu that is why I'm asking this question.
Thank you for your help in advance.
Lou

[gandaran]

Hello all
I wanted to ask if I have a working wireless connection and I try to test a wireless usb one on that machine but I turn off the one that works and I try to use the usb wireless connector will it affect my wireless that is working. The reason I want to test this usb on a my laptop is that on my desktop I get the answer.Wireless is disconnected and when I click on the icon that shows if you have available connections in the area I don't get anything. I don't want to test and see if it will work in my laptop which also has Ubuntu 10.04 if it is going to cause a problem. I'm new to Ubuntu that is why I'm asking this question.
Thank you for your help in advance.
Lou

no it wont cause any problems, but it the adapter doesn't work on the desktop it won't work on the laptop either
you should try the adapter on ubuntu 11.04 maybe it'll work out of the box.
for ubuntu 10.04 you may need to install drivers or do some minor fix, find out the wireless chip brand with this command and paste the results here.

lsusb