On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 02:28:28PM -0800, Matthew Jarvis wrote: > 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....
http://www.openbsd.org/ boot the ISO: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/i386/cd38.iso either your card will be working or it won't. no silly binary wrappers, no messy modules, and definitely no bloat. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
