I just recently tried getting into SKCraft again but unfortunately I discovered that I could no longer play with windows x86. While looking around the forums I saw that a few people were suggesting to dual boot a version of Linux upgrade to windows x64. I decided that I would go the Linux route but I ran into a problem. I managed to install Ubuntu after forcing my wifi adapter to work through ndiswrapper but while installing the Alice mod pack the wifi hangs after installing about 2-3%. Removing my wifi adapter and putting back in fixes it temporarily but only for another 2-3%. I have looked through countless forums trying to solve this but so far my lucks been pretty bad and I'd rather not repeat this process around 30-50 times. Can anyone help me or find a thread that addresses my issue? I really want to get back onto one of my favourite minecraft servers. An alternative to my problem would be to upgrade to windows x64 but unfortunately it seems that windows does not detect my other hard drives at all. I know they are working correctly because I see them in my BIOS and ubuntu can fully use them. I have also tried to find them in the disk management and compter management programs but they still do not appear. If anyone knows why this is happening please help me. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Oh god ndiswrapper... you managed to get that running? I didn't with my old wifi stick. You should not have to work with ndiswrapper, that's a pain and never works as well as an officially supported adapter. Because of this, I'd suggest getting a new wifi adapter which works well with Linux. Atheros chipsets are usually a safe bet, I'm using a Netgear adapter with an Atheros chip and I have no problems at all (funnily, Windows has trouble with it). DON'T get a Broadcom chipset adapter, they are known to work badly with Linux. To find out other supported chipsets check this out: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported Most manufacturers state on their websites which chipsets their adapters use.
I was thinking of getting a new wifi adapter but I don't have much spending money right now and I currently have a Linksys AE2500 which is pretty expensive for me considering that I don't have a job. I'd rather not have to go out and buy a new adapter but if I need to I guess I will just have to save up. For now I rather just look into other options.
Hm, sorry to hear that. I can't really help much with ndiswrapper because I never used it again after my failed attempts at getting my old adapter to work. I eventually bought a new one too. But I can give you a tip: Get one of the cheapest adapters you can get as long as it supports the N standard. Why? Usually you'll see e.g. a 150 Mbit/s adapter advertised for general surfing and email, a 300 MBit/s adapter for gaming and a 450 MBit/s adapter for HD video... that's all bullshit. 150 MBit = 8,75 MByte. There's a bit of overhead involved but you probably don't have 8 MB/s internet, do you? Most people have less than 2 MB/s. (Except punk.) The cheap stick is already more than enough, the other adapters are complete overkill. My new adapter is one of these and it cost me 15€, so (assuming you live in US) you can get one for $15 or less. Edit: Maybe you can trick your parents into thinking your adapter is broken by disabling it in the hardware manager so they'll buy you a new one? (I'm evil )
...which means that a 150 MBit/s stick is still more than enough since you have 100 MBit/s. Also, I envy you because I have 360 KBit/s.
Ah, no wonder why you were having WiFi issues...if you are on a laptop or have a really long Ethernet wire, try to connect and use that temporarily to download Alice. If that works then we can fully identify the issue to be your adapter.
It will be, most likely. Supported adapters usually work out-of-the-box on most Debian derivates, including Ubuntu. You can say that if a wifi adapter won't work on Ubuntu then it's not supported. ndiswrapper is a tool for those unsupported adapters; it uses files from Windows drivers and tries to make them work. If you have to use it, your adapter may or may not work correctly, and you will run into more problems. Like I said, I had to use it because my adapter at the time was really old... but it didn't work at all, so I bought a new one.
Well I don't think I could find an ethernet cord long enough to go from my first floor to my third floor... Also the adapter works well on windows just not Ubuntu. Its pretty stupid how my wifi adapter work well on windows and not Linux and my drives work on Linux and not windows...
Almost all linux distros support the same wifi adapters as far as I know. That seems like a linux kernel thing.
Sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree If that doesn't work first time, try this first then aforementioned command: Sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
