crackers8199
November 8th, 2010, 06:22 AM
i have an old inspiron 8100 that doesn't really run windows xp even very well...so i'm trying to put ubuntu on it. i had 9.04 installed, but am unable to get my belkin f5d7010 version 7 to connect to my wpa2 network (i've tried everything i can find online, with no success). the card works and connects to unsecured networks just fine, but wpa2 doesn't work at all.
so, i was hoping to do 10.10 and hope that something had changed that would allow me to actually get the wireless card working and able to connect to my network. however, when i put the 10.10 cd into the drive and boot, i get no display...it seems like the CD is loading, and if i press the power button it pops open the drive and lets me take out the cd, then pressing enter reboots...but i have nothing showing up on the display.
so, the point of this thread is actually two-fold:
1) does anyone have any way i can get my card working with wpa2?
2) why does my display not work when running the 10.10 live cd?
i know the cd is good, i've used it to install 10.10 on another machine. if someone could help me out here before i smash the laptop completely out of frustration, i'd appreciate it...i'm going on several months trying to get this thing working. finally got frustrated enough that i figured it was time to start my own thread here...
so, i was hoping to do 10.10 and hope that something had changed that would allow me to actually get the wireless card working and able to connect to my network. however, when i put the 10.10 cd into the drive and boot, i get no display...it seems like the CD is loading, and if i press the power button it pops open the drive and lets me take out the cd, then pressing enter reboots...but i have nothing showing up on the display.
so, the point of this thread is actually two-fold:
1) does anyone have any way i can get my card working with wpa2?
2) why does my display not work when running the 10.10 live cd?
i know the cd is good, i've used it to install 10.10 on another machine. if someone could help me out here before i smash the laptop completely out of frustration, i'd appreciate it...i'm going on several months trying to get this thing working. finally got frustrated enough that i figured it was time to start my own thread here...