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Posted on 10/30/2005 9:09:41 PM PST by birbear
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Any help from my FRiends would be appreciated.
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posted on
10/30/2005 9:09:42 PM PST
by
birbear
To: birbear; N3WBI3
Ping to you, since you're an OSS stud!
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posted on
10/30/2005 9:10:48 PM PST
by
birbear
(Admit it. you clicked on the "I have already previewed" button without actually previewing the post.)
To: birbear
no Linux people on tonight?
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posted on
10/30/2005 9:18:49 PM PST
by
birbear
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To: birbear
Try creating a live Linux bootable CD from an ISO file (
Knoppix or
Ubuntu come to mind) and start the laptop up with that.
They probably won't automatically configure your Linksys card as readily as XP does, but the live CD lets you play around with Linux's settings without installing it on your HD.
To: birbear
To: birbear
You might try knoppix.net and run from the CD....
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posted on
10/30/2005 9:20:25 PM PST
by
isthisnickcool
(Eternity? Smoking or nonsmoking?)
To: birbear
Also, what model Linksys card is it?
To: Senator Bedfellow
It's crap like that page that will keep Linux off the majority of home computers.
I'm not a tech guy. I just want stuff that works.
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posted on
10/30/2005 9:25:46 PM PST
by
birbear
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To: birbear; rdb3
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posted on
10/30/2005 9:26:14 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: birbear
LOL - fair enough. Okay, what model Linksys card?
To: Senator Bedfellow
It's this one: http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayout&packedargs=c%3DL_Product_C2%26cid%3D1125638812437&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper
The WPC54G
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posted on
10/30/2005 9:28:23 PM PST
by
birbear
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To: birbear
Once in a while you will find a wireless card that isn't supported (or properly supported) by open source drivers. I have one like that. In that case, you can go to a commercial vendor like linuxant.com and purchase a driver.
If you are starting the whole thing from scratch, it is best to select the wireless card according to what's supported in the O.S. distribution you're going to use.
I have Mandriva 10.1 with KDE 3.4 on a Pentium II 400 Mhz laptop and it isn't bad at all for browsing (Firefox and Opera). In fact, some days I don't bother turning on the desktop even though the processor is supposedly six times as fast. KDE 3.4 helped a lot compared to earlier versions.
With an older laptop, however, you would quickly run out of patience trying to run OpenOffice, etc.
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posted on
10/30/2005 9:28:53 PM PST
by
steve86
(@)
To: birbear
Good card, I have one myself. There are no Linux drivers for that card, as for all cards based on the Broadcom chipset. However, it will work on Linux with ndiswrapper, a piece of software that essentially fools a Windows driver into running on a Linux system. ndiswrapper typically works very well, but it can be moderately complicated to configure. However, it can be done, and quite successfully. How's that? ;)
To: birbear
bir,
some of the distrobutions start the network before they start pcmcia (one of my major pet peeves with fedora) so you can either bring it up after boot 'service network start' or change the order of files in /etc/init.d
google on setting the order if youre in a hurry, if not Ill give you an example later but Im really busy this moment (taking breaks here and there during a dr test) Im 18 hours without food so any time I get will be spent towards that end ;)
Sorry and Ill get you a better answer in a day or two
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posted on
10/30/2005 9:34:28 PM PST
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: birbear
What linux lacks... User friendly doc's I here you there..
Try knoppix, its realy nice out of the box when you have tried it pm me..
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posted on
10/30/2005 9:37:47 PM PST
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: birbear
The best way to check out how well your hardware plays with Linux (hint-most stuff does these days), is to download and burn a copy of
Knoppix. Once you have the CD, boot the sucker off the knoppix disk, and play with the programs. One word of warning: If you don't have a lot of ram, knoppix is going to be dog slow. That's because it builds a ramdisk to temporarily store files and data. Knoppix won't touch your existing hard disk unless you specifically tell it to.
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posted on
10/30/2005 9:49:22 PM PST
by
zeugma
(Warning: Self-referential object does not reference itself.)
To: birbear
I loaded an ISO of Chubby Puppy LINUX and it seems to run fine on my box. You can burn this to a CD with ISOBurn.
Puppy seems to run fine on most everything I have around the house, including some older Packard Bell boxes.
Koppix is fine as well.
If you are having trouble with LINUX, try looking up and reading a HOW TO for the app or action you are trying to get to run.
Learning can be fun.
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posted on
10/30/2005 10:24:07 PM PST
by
ASOC
(The result of choosing between the lesser of two evils still leaves you with - evil.)
To: birbear
I have just done something very similar. I highly recommend this distribution:
Ubuntu Linux Before you do ANYTHING, download the "Live CD" version, boot from the CD and see how well it runs. This will allow you to see all the hardware compatibility.
If it doesn't find the wireless card right away, don't worry - use the product from these people -
Linuxant
Their Driverloader product will help you set it up.
Should you require any further assistance, I'll be happy to share my knowledge.
I should point out that putting Linux on my laptop (it's an HP Compaq nx7000), revitalised its performance.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
10/30/2005 10:27:50 PM PST
by
MadIvan
(You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
To: birbear
I just downloaded DSL (Damn Small Linux) 50MB. Sure is faster than Knoppix on my system. I am trying to figure out how to boot from my USB flashdrive.
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posted on
10/30/2005 10:34:25 PM PST
by
Seven_0
(You cannot fool all of the people, ever!)
To: Senator Bedfellow
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