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Ubuntu Linux (5.04) already comes with support for this wireless card out of the box, so you should be all ready to go.
!!Graphics
-The graphics controller uses an Intel 915GM chipset, which is supposedly supported by Xorg
's i810 driver. However, it doesn't seem to be properly supported by the version of Xorg in Hoary, and graphics didn't work out of the box. (!!)
+The graphics controller uses an Intel 915GM chipset, which is supposedly supported by [XOrg]
's i810 driver. However, it doesn't seem to be properly supported by the version of Xorg in Hoary, and graphics didn't work out of the box. (!!)
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-June/008272.html suggests it all works with newer versions of various packages, so hopefully it will just work in the next release of Ubuntu.
-For now, use the "vesa" graphics driver.
+For now, use the "vesa" graphics driver. Otherwise, if you really want to use the i810 driver, you can download a newer snapshot of the driver from http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/. I used the
+"i915-20050718-linux.i386" which at least got X working with the i810 driver, but still didn't get me accelerated [OpenGL] since it probably wants a newer version of [XOrg] installed. I got the following message in /var/log/Xorg..log:
+<verbatim>
+(EE) I810(): [dri] I830DRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch.
+[dri] libdri version is 4.1.0 bug version 5..x is needed.
+[dri] Disabling DRI.
+</verbatim>
+But at least it looks like this will all work out of the box in Ubuntu 5.10 aka "Breezy Badger"
.
(The difficulty in supporting this chip is described in an [xorg thread|http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-March/007151.html].)
