toman wrote:
conversant. It couldn't find a driver for my linksys wireless card, which older versions of Suse have. All in all, for a distribution that's working that "Linux for everybody" angle it seemed like Linux for almost nobody. I think if I were to inflict a Debian variant on an unsuspecting newbie, it would be Knoppix or its progeny,
I can echo this experience almost word for word from my work this last weekend trying to get Linux on my laptop.
The laptop isn't really used for much, just a wireless thing in the living room for web surfing mostly. I had intended to put Ubuntu on it then changed my mind for something with a smaller bloat....
But for grins I did the Ubuntu install and besides it taking *forever* to install, I could never go anywhere after the login - just hangs with a blank screen (tan background as I recall. not the grey screen issue with displaymanager not loading)....
I ended up installing Damn Small Linux after checking up on things at distrwatch, that went pretty smoothly, but I can't get it to see my wireless card. I was going to post here asking for help but then again it might be good for me to feel a bit more pain researching the problem...
Tried booting up Knoppix in the hopes of seeing what needed to be configured for the wireless and hoping the GUI interface would help me, but the thing wouldn't boot up with anything other than 'failsafe' mode, thus no hardware detection.... kinda defeated the purpose... <g>
If Ubuntu had worked on the laptop it would have been perfect (though a bit too much stuff)... but the thing just wouldn't run....
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