New Laptop and 802.11

[Howard Gibson]

On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:09:13 -0400
Frank <erebus-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Well, life is full of mixed emotions. My wife bought me an early 
> Christmas present. A nice new Acer Aspire 5100 laptop. Hence my happiness.
> 
> The bad news is that installing Kubuntu 7.04 doesn't find the built-in 
> wifi and will require some fiddling on my part. So my love of Kubuntu 
> has dropped a touch. In the meantime my wife is depressed because she 
> figures I have a defective laptop because I haven't used it wirelessly 
> yet and I keep telling her to "be patient, Linux and wireless aren't a 
> perfect couple yet".
> 
> Frank in Mississauga

Frank,

    My Acer Aspire 3620 has buttons and idiot lights that support wireless communications, but I eventually figured out that there are no wireless devices on it.  I have to plug something in.

    Try `/sbin/lspci` and see what devices your computer recognizes.

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