Eureka!

The D-Link WDA-1320 is supported by Ubuntu 6.10 “Edgy Eft ” ‘out of the box’. This is great news, as so far there have been innumerable issues with wireless support in Linux. Let’s get right down to business:

1. Get your Ubuntu installation CD and insert into the CDROM of the computer you will be installing the network card into.
2. Go to a command prompt/terminal and type:

   sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r`

3. This will install all the packages necessary for the system to ’see’ your new card.
4. Close the terminal window.
5. Open Synaptic Package Manager (System -> Administration -> Synaptic …).
6. Click the Search button and look for “network manager”.
7. Select the packages network-manager and network-manager-gnome to be installed.
8. Click Apply to invoke the installation.
9. After the installation completes close Synaptic.
10. Now you will need to disable any wired networking cards (network manager tends to get confused easily if there are some still available). If you don’t have any wired network devices (ethn, where n is a number) skip ahead to step 13.
11. Open the network connections (System -> Administration -> Networking) and uncheck any checked connections.
12. Close the Networking window.
13. Now power down the Ubuntu computer (turn it off).
14. Open the case, install the card into an available PCI slot, and close everything back up again.
15. Turn the computer back on again.
16. You can now see the wireless networks in your area by clicking on the networking icon in the panel notification area. To connect to one, simply click on it.
17. You may or may not need to provide security information to access that network.