On Thursday August 17, 2006 10:14 am, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > I tried the new Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop and it was > able to detect and install the Linksys Realtek 8180 > drivers for my wireless b card right off the bat. > Despite a well polished Gnome Desktop, I still > preferred Debian and decided to use Debian Etch since > the release is only a few months away (I hope). > Obviously, any proprietary drivers are not included > with Debian, but I am curious as to how Ubuntu was > able to do that? I use ndiswrapper to install the > drivers I download from Realtek's website for my > wireless card in Debian, but is there a way to create > a custom kernel with support/modules for most of the > wireless cards out there, even if it non-free? I'm > pretty clueless when it comes to the Linux kernel side > of GNU/Linux so please correct me if I don't know what > I'm talking about.
It's possible that Ubuntu has better hardware detection. I installed Debian Etch on a laptop and it did not detect some hardware, including the "winmodem" and Ralink RT2500 wireless interface. Then I tried Xandros with much the same result. Only Linspire and Freespire detected all the hardware and I did not have to fuss with any kernel modules. 8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]