This is about my 2 day struggle to get 2 totally different wireless netgear cards to work in my compaq laptop.I had Ubuntu 6.10 in this laptop before and my netgear MA521 worked like a charm ,right out of the box.Well I loved this linux openerating system so much i figured i would try version 7.04 “Fiesty” , Little did i know that they used a different kernel for 7.04 and now my wireless nightmare began.I tryed to install ndiswrapper in 7.04 with my netgear MA521 and also my Netgear wpnt511 Rangemax and had no luck making either work this way. I have used ndiswrapper before with a Netgear WG511 on ubuntu 6.10 with great success.Im not sure what they did exactly to “Fiesty” but i finally decided to downgrade back to the trusty version 6.10 since it works. Just so everyone know i also tryed this with xubuntu 7.04 with no luck at all, but i did like the colors of that os alittle better.Well this is my computer rant for today ,check back for more soon.

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