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maxrpowell
October 30th, 2009, 02:53 AM
I just installed 9.10 using wubi.exe, and have one problem. I need my wireless card to get internet access, but it is a restricted driver. when I open the Hardware Driver utility no drivers show up for me to enable, please help, thank you

bswilson
October 30th, 2009, 02:58 AM
If you know which driver you need, and where to get it, I recommend booting from a Knoppix CD-ROM or a Live Ubuntu CD-ROM. From there, you can mount your hard drive as read/write and save the driver files there.

After that, you can reboot into Karmic, and manually install your drivers?

maxrpowell
October 30th, 2009, 03:01 AM
i got some old 9.04 live cds, how do i mount as read and write?

maxrpowell
October 30th, 2009, 03:14 AM
how can i find the name of the needed wireless driver and where can i get a package, since i have a dual install i can just save the file on my windows desktop and access it in Ubuntu

maxrpowell
October 30th, 2009, 03:26 AM
i have a "Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card"