Michael Werneke wrote: >> >> I have no assurance that FC5 will fix things. I'm tempted to try another >> distro ... maybe SUSe. > > > I've recently become a believer in Ubuntu. I put the latest alpha of > Dapper Drake on my new Dell laptop and the distro found and properly > configured all the nifty goodies on it. It's not an Atheros chip for the > wifi, but I did some searching and it seems that with Ubuntu, madwifi "Just > Works(r)". > > If you're not feeling so adventurous as to put an alpha release on your > system, Breezy Badger should be about the same for the Atheros/madwifi. >
Maybe there's a live cd version to try instead of an actual install. Hmmm, maybe this might be something useful in general, for any distro. A live-cd hardware discovery, compatibility, test and diagnostic tool. Now, where do we get those? -- cdl? ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
