[buug] WiFi under Ubuntu 6.06 on Compaq Presario M2000 laptop

[Joseph Zitt]

Hi, folks. I've been running Ubuntu 6.06 on Compaq Presario M2000 
laptop, and almost everything is going well. However, connecting to the 
Net via WiFi is proving a challenge. I've checked a host of references, 
web pages, and manuals, but it works only intermittently, if at all. I 
think it's failing to get a DHCP connection, though I'm uncertain if 
that's just a symptom (and perhaps a misleading one). It does seem to 
behave properly when I boot into Windows, so I think that shows that the 
hardware's OK.

To complicate things, I don't have a Net connection at home, but get on 
at a variety of Internet cafes, with a variety of connections, some open 
and some with WEP and WPA.

Would anyone be willing to sit down with me sometime at one of the many 
downtown Internet joints and help me get it working? I can't afford 
appropriate consulting fees, but I can buy you lunch :-)

I'm online once or twice a day, or you can reach me at my cell phone, 
which is the phone number listed at http://www.josephzitt.com/resume/ . 
(And I should probably update the resume sometime to include what I've 
been doing since 2001 :-] ),