Thanks - I'll give it a try when I get home - I'm on the road this week. Peace, Amy
On May 2, 2:16 pm, Fred McKinney <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry if this is off-topic, but Amy, in regards to your wi-fi issues, I've > discovered two Linux distributions that haveexcellentwireless card > detection. My wife's 5-year-old Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop (on which she > still insists on using that virus that masquerades as an operating system > LOL) has a Broadcom 4311 (or is it 4318? -- I don't remember which) wireless > card in it. I've tried to run various Linux distros on it, and never had any > luck getting any of them to recognize and activate drivers for the Broadcom > card until this past week.MepisandPC/OS(not to be confused with PCLinuxOS) > are the only two distros I'm aware of that come with the drivers for the > Broadcom card. Now, anytime I want to use it with Linux, it's no problem at > all to do so. Mepis is based on Debian and features KDE 4.3 for its desktop, > while PC/OS is based on Ubuntu and uses Xfce 4.6.1 for its desktop. > My wife's laptop only has 512 MB of RAM in it, and when I tried Mepis, KDE > absolutely ground it to a halt soon after getting online. Besides, I used to > be a KDE fan back in its 3.x days, but I've never liked KDE 4 very much at > all, so there wasn't any love lost there to begin with. PC/OS, however, ran > like a charm from the live CD (there's also a DVD version that comes with > more software pre-installed). I'd been looking for another distro lately > after some issues I had with Mint (long story), and when I found that PC/OS > could connect wirelessly from my wife's laptop, plus since I've gone from > being a GNOME fan to an Xfce fan as of late, I have to say that PC/OS is now > my favorite distro and is honestly the best distro I have ever tried -- I > love it! > So Amy, if you're looking for something that will let you connect wirelessly > without going through a bunch of trial and error with the command line, I'd > highly recommend giving PC/OS a try (or Mepis, if you prefer KDE) -- I think > you'll be happy you did.:-) > Fred > amycsj wrote:I downloaded in the evening from Australia - very snappy. I've > done live CD, but it still seems to have wifi issues with my netbook ASUS > 1005ha Amy > > > > -- > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > Main page:http://www.cwelug.org > To post: [email protected] > To subscribe: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > More options:http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
