-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 January 2003 07:47 pm, Bopolissimus Platypus wrote: > On Monday 20 January 2003 06:21 am, KevinO wrote: > > I just want to be able to get a connection without having to pay $20 a > > day for an ethernet connection. I will be traveling through London, Paris > > and Amsterdam. > > how does that work? you still need to get the internet feed from > somewhere. if you're not paying for the ethernet connection > (presumably at hotels), whose wireless network are you going > to connect to? or are you going to be sniffing for open networks > and leech off them? :).
Britain has a number of public access wireless lans. > > Will Mandrake 8.0 be current enough or should I upgrade ? > > i had lots of trouble getting my d-link WPC11 working on 8.2. basically, > i had to build my own kernel and it was a major pain (because i have > a bunch of other patches that i need, mainly win4lin, and it took weeks > to get everything straightened out because of conflicts in the patches That seems to make yours a special case. I had no problems getting any of my wlan devices working in 8.2 but many in 9.0. In fact, I installed 9.0 but still use the 8.2 kernel because it works so well whereas the 9.0 kernel, rebuilt or not, doesn't do much right at all for me (no XFS support if I build the kernel EVEN if I explicitly select XFS support, no usb wlan possible, supermount glitches). As I understand it, the kernels coming after 9.0 are WORSE - no XFS support at all, usb problems still. 8.2 is a solid version that works very well with lots of wlan cards. If you aren't worried about win4lin stuff, then it is probably the best bet. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+LC7E1i/6R1B/Yh0RAmd4AJ0RpLGRQ87XaX5FJg5qcxXCnZRxNgCfZ3nd HtSyzudT6a4nD2dFZjx4qjw= =ZYJB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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