ATI drivers and D-Link wireless card

[Wild_Card]

I installed Ubuntu Linux on my computer a week ago, and have since been unable to install video and wireless drivers. So this leaves me with 2 problems. No GUI and no internet.

I have drivers for ATI, and I have some (3rd party?) drivers for my wireless card. They're on a USB key and I've tryed installing the ATI stuff.

I dont have the make command.

Im running Ubuntu AMD64 5.10 and I have the latest drivers for i386 and x84_64 from ATI's website. I've tryed installing the drivers but I get errors.

When I run the i386 version, I get presented with a command line, in which case I type the following: X_VERSION=x690 ./ati (blah blah driver name) and then get some prompts, and then an error, to which it is saved into a log file.

When I run the x86_64 version, I get the same prompt. I can then choose which packages, but once again, I get the error message.

Fatal screen error: no screens found.

I havent tryed to install the wireless drivers, but the thing is, iwconfig can see my card as wlan0. But when I try iwlist scanning, nothing comes up.

Any help is greatly appreciated,
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[kage]

Open up a terminal on your ubuntu machine, and tell me what running 'sudo ndiswrapper -i' returns. (note that you will be prompted for your user password).

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I dont have to open terminal, I cant even get into GUI ndiswrapper is not installed though :S

[kage]

In the console (after if gives the errors) try running 'sudo X -configure', this will generate an xorg config file for you and tell you where it is located (usually /root/xorg.conf.new). Then run 'sudo mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf' to move it. Reboot and your xserver should work.

As far as installing the ati drivers, you'll have to head over to the ubuntu forum. I'm not sure how it is 'supposed' to be done on ubuntu.

-kage

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Thanks for your time. I headed over to their forums first, but they dont really know either. I take it from the lack of replies to posts I had made.

When I boot up, it'll try and load x but I get the error. So instead I have to log in in text mode (runlevel3 I think?). I try startx again and still get the error.

So I tryed x -Configure and got a few lines, but the last 2 lines are as follows:

(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Dec 4 04:22:12 2005
Missing output drivers. Configuration failed.

The log file has a bunch of memory addresses (so it seems) and at the end, something about ATI technologies Inc unknown chipset, and then once again, Missing output drivers. Configuration failed.

[kage]

What kind of ati card is it? I used to have on a while back (9800pro) but was never succesfully able to get the ati drivers working on it.

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