Epic Puck

I have a Compaq Laptop - 730us.  Yep, it's one of the laptops that people are saying not to buy.  The built-in wireless card went out on it last week.  It was working fine one day and then the next the on/off light stopped displaying the on position.

So off to Fry's I went.  Best Buy is good but Fry's gets the closest to Newegg's price including shipping.

I did some research and settled on the D-Link DWA 160.  It's compact and out of the box works with Ubuntu 10.04 which I have installed on this laptop.  Over the next few days, I began to notice that the connection speeds were unusually low.  Also, the connection would drop for no apparent reason.

I found the solution.

1. Grab the latest driver at: http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/.
2. Unpack it
3. Make
4. Sudo make install

That's it. If you don't know the name of your driver, reboot.

Happy surfing and working

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