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Today, I show you working options that work for wireless on notebooks using ExpressCard on Ubuntu instead of PCMCIA as we talked about before. But instead of actually trying to tackle an ExpressCard solution directly, I purchased two USB wireless devices, no revision number nonsense and both use Linux native drivers, despite also offering drivers for Windows users as well.
Download this script: rt73usb-wifi. With this script, right click on them, goto properties and goto permissions, make it executable. Then with either of the two devices I have linked to above plugged in, double click it while choosing “run in terminal” with rt73usb-wifi. It will hang as a blank window for a few then hang even longer with the output of your iwconfig - make note of whether you are seeing (wlan0, wlan1, 2, 3 or whatever). From there, Wicd should work if already installed. Just remember two important things - this is for the devices I recommended, no promises with anything else, although it ought to be good with anything based on rt73usb. And two, you need to set Wicd’s preferences with wlan-whatever so it knows what it is scanning with.
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