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From: robin.pain on 6 May 2008 05:32
NB F10 to enable the wireless link!!!

First I installed Hardy (Ubunutu 8.04) and could not get the graphics
driver to work and survive a power down/up - there are some
disparaging remarks about SIS (Silicon Integrated Systems) restricted
graphics drivers on the Ubuntu forums - eventually I got a "pirated"
copy of the source and compiled it OK and finally managed to get
something better than 800 * 600 viz 1280 * 768 but it refused to
survive power down/up.

Then I installed Gutsy (Ubuntu 7.10) and the driver worked but the
wireless link refused to work using both ndsiwrapper and the native
wlan drivers (iwconfig only showed lo and etho) and wcid (I repeated
the whole thing using an external Netgear WG111v3 with no success) -
this failure was probably due to my not knowing about F10.

Then I reformatted the drive and installed XP and SP2 and the three
Windows WLAN utils on the disc provided and the built-in WLAN was
still inert. But for the first time the Netgear WLAN USB adapter
worked!

I phoned Novatech and was told "press F10" and voila, the in-build
WLAN appeared for the first time (after about 30 hours of hard slog).

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It may well be that a later version of Hardy (after April 2008) works
graphics-wise and Gutsy (Ubuntu 7.10) may have worked if I had known
about F10, unless that happens to be a Windows only thing, otherwise I
could not make the RT73 built-in WLAN, (or the USB Netgear WG111v3)
work on the Novatech Axes-pro laptop in Ubuntu.

You can get the RT73 drivers directly from http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html

Cheers
Rob
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