If you have hardware that has good linux support, it will usually simply work effortlessly "out of the box", if instead you have hardware that isn't generally supported by its maker (with open source drivers, or even just a closed source driver suitable for all versions of Linux, then you might be in for a more troublesome experience, as some "hacking" is needed, like using a driver written originally for Windows, (or another Linux version) using some "trickery".
It al depends on the hardware, unfortunately even netbook designers still choose (WiFi) hardware from manufacturers that ignore Linux, and do not want to support it by releasing drivers to the general Linux community. In as OS that is release with that hardware that is often not a problem, as the hardware designers can get direct support from the hardware makers, but these solutions are "closed", and do not carry over to other Linux distributions, without (again) a lot of "hacking". So just because the (Linux) OS on some netbook works with the hardware in that netbook, do not think the drivers that are used in that OS will be available to other Linux distributions. It's a sad state of affairs... On 17 sep, 23:02, ace calhoun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am so new to this, and I'm interested in getting to know how linux > works, but first I really have to get wifi up and running! > I successfully installed gOS to my Acer Aspire One, and I've been > searching for a way to get wifi to work with what little knowledge I > have. I've downloaded madwifi and read how to build and install it and > I'm kind of just baffled when it comes to actually getting going. I > really want to understand this, and I've already had a few successes > using terminal. Can somebody please post a step-by-step guide to > getting wifi to work for me? Thanks in advance to the kind soul who > can walk me through this. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
