[Sussex] What distro?

[Paul Howard]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:25:57 +0100, Alan Pope  wrote:

>
> Not unusual for most linux distros.
>
>> So Kubuntu is out it seems - although later this week I will be
>> downloading the install version and installing it on my Desktop machine  
>> at
>> work.
>
> You'd throw the whole distro out after a short eval and only one item
> not working (yet). You're not cut out for this linux lark arey you! :D
>
> I just googled for 30 seconds with the model of your wifi card and the
> word "linux" and found a number of hits detailing what to do to make
> it work.
>
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List#B that
> page for example shows a list of people (3) who have reported success
> using ndiswrapper to make the card work with the windows binary
> driver.
>
> All hope is not lost yet!
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>

ahhh don't get me wrong - I am not ditching it totaly - but I dont have  
time to fiddle around getting my network working on my main machine. If it  
was just something like sound not working I would have it installed now  
but wifi is very important to work out of the box (for the time being  
anyway). As soon as I get more time I will fiddle around and try and get  
it working in whatever distro I decide on.

I guess I am spoiled slightly by the hardware detection in Linspire - it  
really is good - shame the rest of it isn't as good.

maybe this is a good time to convince the wife to let me buy a new machine  
"for testing" :)



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