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It’s a summer night and I know that the Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) alpha had been released, so I decided to check it out.

I got an image for Xubuntu, and upon booting from the CD, I saw an option that I hadn’t noticed in earlier editions (most of my installs were upgraded directly from 6.10 to 7.04.

The option read “Install with driver update CD”.

At first, I took little notice – because I knew the install routine, and I wasn’t looking for distractions.. then i got a little excited. In my imagination (?) “Install with driver update CD” would use ndiswrapper to search for drivers for non-supported network cards (like the wireless ZyXel card I got from woot.com recently)

“Insert a driver CD and press ENTER (i386)”

a few moments passed and I saw…

“Re-insert install CD and press ENTER”

Many minutes have passed and the power light on this wireless card has yet to perk up…

I found the solution on the ubuntu wiki … the driver has to be a linux driver – it isn’t intended to run ndiswrapper for you.. here’s the link: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubiquity/DriverUpdates

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