On 4/9/06, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? >
There are hundreds of live CDs listed at: http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php A few Linux distro's have matching live CDs. Slackware, Ubuntu, SuSE, Mandrake. I have had some success with "DamnSmall Linux" as a tool disk. Also "SystemRescue CD". http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ http://www.sysresccd.org/ carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
