Ubuntu
linux-fsl-imx51 package

  1. Bug #423767
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 423767

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Nicholas Roberts (nicholasdavidroberts) wrote :

Apologies for this interruption, but I have been trying to get a 'convert's' laptop working on Ubuntu for 3 weeks now. Everything is fine apart from WiFi. He had two cards (one USB and one PCMCIA), I won't bore you with the detail but they do not work with Linux.

To keep him interested (and myself sane) I bought a USB stick with a 148f:2070 chipset. rt2800usb loads but neither Network Manager no WiCd can connect it. I have tried it with Jaunty and Karmic... Jaunty ignores it, Karmic loads rt2800usb and neither work.

Seeing as WiFi is so important to connectivity, it is sad that Linux/Ubuntu is soooooo very complicated/impossible on that issue. Needless to say that Windoze$$$ XP worked with all three within 3 minutes of plugging the card/dongle in.

If ANYBODY can tell me how to get a 148f:2070 chipset connected with ANYTHING other than Window$ I will donate my body to them on my death... creepy eh?