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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Monday, September 12, 2005 1:33:07 pm | by MikeForbes | |
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I also have an Airport Extreme card in my iBook G4 which has worked with every network I've tried it with.
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+!! Mike's experience of wireless networking with a Compaq Presario (using the Centrino IPW2200) and Ubuntu Hoary
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+Ubuntu and various other livecds detect the built in wireless in this laptop straight out of the box, but unfortunatly Ubuntu has an older driver and it seems to drop the connnection whenever the signal drops below 80%, or when the machine goes into standby mode.
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+The real issue is that once the connection is dropped, it doesn't reconnect.
+You have to rmmod the actual module, modprobe to add it again and then reconnect to your wireless AP.
+(Which is a real pain)
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+I found a quick hack on the ubunutu forums that fixed it for me:
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+http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=26623&highlight=wireless+connection+drops
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+(there's some extra stuff in there about WPA if you're that way inclined)
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+After installing the latest driver and hacking everything together, it works perfectly.
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+:)
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