On 15 February 2012 11:24, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood@gmai...> wrote:

> need either ndiswrapper or the firmware loading for them - I seem to
> recall that this has been taken out of Ubuntu recently.
>

That was the sort of thing I thought it would probably be... the developers
making things "cleaner" by removing stuff...

I am not sure if I am dreaming but do I not remember that at one stage
Ubuntu used to notice drivers it didn't have and offer to download/install
them from the web?

If I get the machine onto an RJ45 lead is there a possibility the OS could
still do this?

Sean