Comments on: First impressions of Vista and Ubuntu

By: Marvell MC85 with NdisWrapper on Ubuntu 9.10

Marvell MC85 with NdisWrapper on Ubuntu 9.10 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:51:41 +0000

[...] doesn’t have a native Ubuntu driver yet. Therefore you have to use a Windows XP driver for it as described here. You can download the Netgear wn311t_setup_4_1.exe driver set and extract its content on either XP [...]

By: Joe Wein

Joe Wein — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:24:37 +0000

lonestar,

were you trying to use ndiswrapper with a 64-bit Windows driver or with 32 bit? A preliminary Google search suggests that you can’t combine 32-bit Windows drivers with 64-bit ndiswrapper.

By: lonestar

lonestar — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:40:54 +0000

yes but with our m6750’s ubuntu 64 bit does NOT want to cooperate. Either with the onboard WIFI marvell top dog as NONE of the workarounds will work with 64 bit. also my um 175 usb modem with ppp wireless broadband will not work. even with the usb_modeswitch and all the tricks. there are workarounds for the amd 64 system as they are backwards compatible. but our intel core 2 duos? forget it.

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:14:54 +0000

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-generic

and then a restart solved my problems with the sound on this exact same laptop. Thank you so much for the wifi card instructions. I now have this laptop running Linux Mint 4.0 KDE edition with full sound and wifi!

By: pali

pali — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:32:24 +0000

Ubuntu next release will probably support
your sound card as the intel hd audio support will be provided in the kernel and for your wifi if it is intel it will work in the next release but if it is broadcom u have to use ndiswrapper.

By: joew

joew — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:27:32 +0000

Hello Ridgeland,

I agree with you about supporting suppliers that sell Linux-based hardware. I have three Dells in current use and would have bought a Linux-based Dell, except for two reasons:

1) Dell Japan does not offer English versions of their products for the Japanese domestic market. They do not sell notebooks or desktops with English keyboards or Windows PCs preinstalled with English versions of Windows for that matter.

2) My trip to the US was brief and the delivery time would have meant I would have been back in Japan by the time the computer arrived (I checked on their website). I could not have picked up the Dell in a store, as I did with the Gateway, which is a pity.

By: joew

joew — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:18:29 +0000

Hello Dave field,

good point on pointing out that one install was customized, the other generic. Last time I bought a Windows XP machine and installed a different (non-OEM) Windows version on it I also had to install a whole set of drivers that came with the original OS, in order to make sure all hardware was recognized.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:16:59 +0000

I’ve tried many a distro for Gateway laptops. So far Mespis it the winner for the newest machines. Mepis leaves Ubu in the dust…

By: Ridgeland

Ridgeland — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:01:20 +0000

I bought a Dell-Ubuntu desktop last summer. I wanted to support a major vendor selling Linux and I wanted to encourage Linux compatible hardware. Dollars in the market place speak louder than forum rants. Dell has to buy Linux-friendly components.

By: lefty.crupps

lefty.crupps — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:50:26 +0000

>It would help if Gateway and other manufacturers
>were to offer pre-configured Ubuntu machines, as
>Dell already does.

It would help more if the actual hardware manufacturers created and released drivers for Linux, rather than relying on the Linux community to guess at the hardware and hack out a solution for every new setup.

With the growth of Linux, however, this will be less and less of an issue as time moves on.