Formatting source code on Blogger with SyntaxHighlighter

In my last post, I shared a few lines of Linux terminal commands. Apart from the <pre> HTML tag, which uses a monospaced font and preserves white space, Blogger doesn't provide an easy way to publish this type of data. In a post with a couple of lines of code, this is a minor inconvenience. However, I hope to be able to share longer code snippets at some point in the future, and without some form of syntax highlighting this would quickly become difficult to read.

Persuading Ubuntu to recognise my Netgear WG121 Wireless Adapter

This is something I've been meaning to do for a while, but have never quite got around to. I'd even bought an extra, second hand adapter purely on the basis that it worked under Linux without any messing about. However, I had my hand forced this weekend when I discovered that the adapter I normally use had failed - presumably a severe hardware fault since neither Ubuntu's lsusb command or Windows XP's "Found New Hardware" wizard would recognise it. The process for getting the Netgear WG121 working should have been fairly straightforward, but unfortunately it wasn't. I decided to document it here in the hope that it might help someone else with the same problem.